by Gail Knopf,
Vice President of Product Strategy
the TriZetto Group, Inc.

Given the consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) movement underway, employers are offering new consumer-directed benefit products to their employees at a rate that is growing faster than the move into managed care plans in the 1990’s. Though the intent of these new CDH plans is admirable, the risk is that they might not realize their objective of improving the quality of healthcare while at the same time reducing its cost.

by Shawn Jenkins
Co-founder and CEO
Benefitfocus


Employer groups of all size grapple with these issues, especially the small and medium sized companies. Like many companies, Daniel Island wants to provide the highest level of healthcare benefits at the best cost. It offers a high deductible health savings account, which has been very popular, as well as a traditional health plan. Many of their employees are Spanish, making multi-lingual tools and education critically important for optimum healthcare. Malloy explains that by implementing integrated self-service enrollment, billing and data exchange technology, Daniel Island Company automates their benefits processes, reduces operating costs and errors, improves customer satisfaction and promotes compliance.

by Ann Mond Johnson, CEO
Subimo, LLC

Consumers are faced with a barrage of healthcare acronyms: HMO, PPO, POS, PCP—and the list goes on. But what about a little S.O.S.—especially for the millions of Americans who have to learn a new and seemingly ubiquitous acronym: HDHP.