From WellPoint, a U.S. insurance company:
A recent study of consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) by WellPoint, Inc.1,2 found good news for both employers and consumers. Employers, the most common source of health benefits in the United States, are faced with increasing cost pressures. However, the employers in WellPoint’s study who switched to a CDHP in 2007 saw a slight decrease in their cost trend while costs for other plan types continued to climb. At the same time, the consumers enrolled in CDHPs had higher utilization of preventive care than consumers enrolled in non-CDHPs. The difference was more pronounced for males than females. WellPoint’s analysis found the male CDHP members had 8.8 percent higher preventive utilization than their counterparts enrolled in other plan types. This is a particularly positive finding as men generally tend to have fewer preventive care visits than women.
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(Via StateHouseCall)
