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SPOTLIGHT: Customers enrolled in consumer-directed plans make healthier choices
Cigna ( NYSE: CI ) says that consumer-directed healthcare is serving enrollees the way it's designed to by encouraging members to make good choices, reports American Medical News. Compared with members
SPOTLIGHT: Prevention may be nice, but it's expensive
Much of the talk around preventive care assumes that if more is given, overall healthcare costs will be lower. The reality, however, is that this doesn't seem to be the case, according to one report.
Study: Higher spending for end-of-life care doesn't offer higher care quality
A new study published in Health Affairs underscores a principle that has been shown to apply to the entire U.S. healthcare system --that greater spending doesn't equal better care. The study, which
