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Article: Extra discounts for HSA users put CDH in overdrive.(Health savings accounts)(consumer-driven health care)(health care costs)
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- Employee Benefit News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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There is a small community in rural Iowa that is so dedicated to bringing the best and most economical health care to its population that it is paving the path to a new way of thinking about consumer-driven health care.
Last year, our firm spent considerable time in this community helping several large employers implement CDH plans with health savings accounts. As it happens, one of our clients is a local hospital and its clinics.
During our discussions of what had been happening locally and nationally with CDH, we started to ask ourselves why the clinics couldn't provide an additional line item discount to employees with an HSA. Why not offer them ...