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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 was proud to endorse and sponsor the recent 2010 Employer Health and Human Capital Congress February 2-5, 2010 at The Gaylord National Trade and Conference Center in Washington, DC. Together, with our member organizations, we are planning additonal events and forums designed to provide the latest industry information and future trends and up to the minute policy information from Washington. Please Click on the logo below to register for all of sponsored our events.

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CDHCI Events announced The Consumer Driven Health Care Institute was proud to sponsor the World Congress Employer Health and Human Capital Congress in Washington from February 2-5, 2010. Please stay in touch with CDHCI through our weekly newsletter to learn about our upcoming endorsed and sponsored events for 2010. Click on the link for additional information and advance registration for our future events.... CDHCI staff
Obama Offers to Use Some G.O.P. Health Proposals President Obama offered Tuesday to address some of the concerns expressed by Republicans in the health care debate as the two parties maneuvered for advantage heading into the legislative end game. In a letter to Congressional leaders of both parties, Mr. Obama said he was open to four specific ideas raised by Republicans at the daylong health care forum last week, including encouraging the use of tax-advantaged medical savings accounts and increasing payments to doctors who treat Medicaid patients... New York Times
Fix Health Care Costs To Lower Insurance Rates, Obama Advised Health insurance premiums are driven by health care costs that must be addressed before premiums can be brought under control, health care industry executives told the President today. They made their point at a White House meeting attended by President Obama, other administration officials and state insurance regulators.... National Underwriter
GOP rejects Obama's compromise offer on health bill President Obama offered to add a handful of Republican ideas to his 10-year, $950 billion health care plan Tuesday but was rebuffed and urged to start over.
A quick exchange of letters did little to bring the two sides together, five days after a summit showcased vast differences between Obama's comprehensive and Republicans' incremental approaches..... USA Today
Medical Banking Rx Receives Disruptive Innovator Award CDHCI Member Medical Banking Rx, LLC, a full service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firm, today announced that it has received the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Medical Banking Project Disruptive Innovator Award. The Disruptive Innovator Award was in recognition of the development of Patient Driven RxSM, a truly unique prescription drug program that provides real-time solutions to the deficiencies inherent in the Consumer Driven Health (CDH) market.... Business Wire
New findings from University of Illinois in the area of risk analysis published According to recent research published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, We use unique data from an insurer that exclusively offers high-deductible, consumer-directed health plans to identify the effect of plan features, notably employer contributions to the spending account, on health care spending. Our results show that the marginal dollar contributed by the employer to the spending.... Insurance News Net
The President’s Health Reform Proposal: Insurance And Revenue Provisions Although the proposal was posted as a prelude to the February 25 health care summit between Democrat and Republican congressional leadership and the president, it is not a mere ideas piece or discussion draft. Rather, it is essentially the outline of a budget reconciliation bill that—in tandem with HR 3590, already enacted by the Senate—would complete the task of comprehensive health care reform when adopted by both Houses.... Health Affairs Blog
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