Article: New Self Directed Health Plan Empowers Texas Consumers to Take an Active Role in Managing Their Health Care Spending; * 'Consumer-driven' health plan provides options and tools to help members more actively direct and track their health care expenditures.

Committed to providing new "consumer-driven" health plans that provide consumers more choice, flexibility and affordability in the face of rising health care costs, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. , is offering its fully insured Self Directed Health Plan in Texas.

Available now to mid- and large-sized businesses (51 or more employees) and small businesses (two to 50 employees) Dec. 1, the PacifiCare SignatureFreedom Self Directed Health Plan offers enrollees a PacifiCare- funded account from which they pay selected health care expenses along with a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) health plan.

PacifiCare designed the plan to offer health care ...

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