Posts Tagged ‘Insight for Business Leaders’

In my travels, I ask many community and business leaders if their health insurance plans include a health savings account (HSA). “Yes, I think so” is the most common answer I get, but that is quickly followed by “that’s the thing where we have to predict what our out-of-pocket spending might be for the year…

Currently, the patient isn’t the “customer”; so says Steve Forbes, Editor-In-Chief of Forbes Magazine. Transforming patients into customers also means empowering them to shop for lower-cost healthcare like they already do for other purchases. Sadly, that hasn’t been possible so far—you can’t Google to find the lowest-cost, high-quality provider that’s also nearby for a medical…

“Driven by the emerging private health exchange sector, health savings accounts may be poised to quadruple their growth over the next six years,” according to a report published by Consumerdriven, LLC and HSA Consulting Services, LLC. “While health savings accounts have experienced a steady growth rate over the past decade, health exchanges, especially private exchanges,…