December 2005
Special Edition
Pathologists: Will CDHP-insured Patients Pay You?
Helping Labs Get Ahead Of the CDHP Tsunami
Timely insights to help craft effective strategies to benefit from healthcare’s emerging big trend
Newsmaker Interview: Paul Mango
Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare’s Next Wave
New plans give consumers financial incentives to become savvy buyers of their healthcare
Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare’s Next Wave topics include:
- Changing Consumer Behavior
- Managed Care Problems of the 1990s
- Economic Basis of CDHPs
- Explaining HSAs, HRAs, FSAs
- Changes Soon to Confront Hospitals
- Hospitals Face Effective Competitors
- CDHPs Change Hospital Bad Debt
- Why CDHPs Are a Threat to Payers
- “Balance After Insurance”Problem
- Financial Firms to Pursue HSAs
- Four”Must Do’s” to Win with CDHPs
- Changes in Labs’ Revenue Cycle
- EPTs-Episode Treatment Groups
