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Our Mission
The Consumer-Driven Health Care Institute (CDHCI) is a not-for-profit organization representing the leaders in consumer-driven health care. CDHCI's goal is to be the prime source for education, research and information about consumer-driven health care. The Institute actively promotes the shift to the Consumer-Driven Health paradigm.
The Member Companies have created health care models and technologies that empower individuals to make informed health care choices.
CDHCI believes that:
- Consumers will work with their physicians and health care providers to create a better health care outcome for themselves and their families.
- Health care usage is more cost efficient with empowered and knowledgeable consumers who use information tools.
- Price and quality transparency about health care professionals is a key method for effective consumer health care choices.
Events
CDHCI is proud to sponsor and endorse "Meet the Health Policy Makers" produced by Atlantic Information Services in Washington, DC July 10-11, 2008. This event will feature the most prominent health policy makers in Washington from Senators Hatch, Wyden, Rockefeller to Chairmen Waxman, Stark, Rangel and Ranking Member Camp. In addition, senior health policy advisors to the presidential campaigns, prominent academics from influential Washington think thanks and innovative state policy makers are confirmed at this unique event. Click here to find out more about the conference.....Please click on the link below for program information and registration.

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CDHCI Events announced CDHCI is proud to sponsor and endorse "Meet the Health Policy Makers" produced by Atlantic Information Services in Washington, DC July 10-11, 2008. This event will feature the most prominent health policy makers in Washington from Senators Hatch, Wyden, Rockefeller to Chairmen Waxman, Stark, Rangel and Ranking Member Camp. In addition, senior health policy advisors to the presidential campaigns, prominent academics from influential Washington think thanks and innovative state policy makers are confirmed at this unique event. Click here to find out more about the conference..... CDHCI staff
IRS regs provide guidance on employer HSA contributions The IRS has issued final regulations providing guidance on employer comparable contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) under Code Sec. 4980G where an employee has not established an HSA by December 31 and where an employer accelerates contributions for the calendar year for employees who have incurred qualified medical expenses.... CCH
McCain Wants to Shift Health Insurance From Employers to Marketplace Republican presidential candidate John McCain wants health insurance companies to compete for your business on the open market.He would offer families a $5,000 tax credit to help buy insurance policies. "Millions of Americans would be making their own health care choices again," McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa....
AP
Milliman: Consumer-driven impact study Do consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) help reduce healthcare costs?
Many have opined on this issue but actual experience has been lacking. So Milliman, in partnership with the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), undertook the industry's first independent, risk-adjusted study of six employers' CDHPs....
Milliman, Inc.
Stark and Waxman say Dem claims on HSAs vindicated That's essentially what two leading House Democrats said Wednesday in the wake of new findings showing that wealthier people are much more likely to open health savings accounts (HSAs)....
The Hill
The Doctor Behind McCain's Health Care Plan When John McCain outlined his health care plan in Florida yesterday, it had the imprints of a House Republican who has been looking for a chance to bring his own experiences with the health care system to the national stage. Back when there was still a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Michael C. Burgess of Texas, an obstetrician-gynecologist from the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, approached Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney to offer his advice on health care policy. "I didn't get a lot of interest," he recalls....
Congressional Quarterly
UnitedHealth: HSA enrollment exceeds traditional accounts UnitedHealth Group said Wednesday that for the first time, enrollment by its members in health savings accounts have surpassed enrollment in more traditional health reimbursement accounts. Minneapolos St. Paul Business Journal
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