Consumer Driven Health Care

Wellness programs are increasingly popular in the workforce, but employers are taking an extra step to battle rising costs by rewarding employees who follow wellness guidelines and penalizing the ones who don't. According to a study by MetLife, 17

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28% of all employers offer a wellness program as a workplace benefit. 43% of employers believe their employees appreciate wellness programs. 49% of companies with 500 or more employees offer a wellness program. Source: MetLife 5th

HRAs are great, as long as they are used in a proper manner. The premise behind the CDH acronym family (HRA, HDHP and HSA) was to change the patient's behavior from an inefficient "all you can eat buffet" mentality of health care

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California employers are being deprived of one of the best tools available for lowering the cost of coverage and offering health benefits. They are being deprived of this tool, not by state legislators and regulators, but because of concerted action