Consumers for health care choices
Encyclopedia
Consumers for health care choices is a non-profit advocacy group for consumer driven health care
In 2008 it gave the following awards recognizing pioneers in health care:
Consumer driven health care
Defined narrowly, consumer-driven health care refers to third tier health insurance plans that allow members to use personal health savings accounts , Health Reimbursement Accounts , or similar medical payment products to pay routine health care expenses directly, while a high-deductible health...
In 2008 it gave the following awards recognizing pioneers in health care:
- Pioneer in Health Economics: Regina Herzlinger, author of "Marker-Driven Health Care," "Consumer-Driven Health Care," and "Who Killed Health Care?"
- Pioneer in Medical Practice: Garrison Bliss, MD, founder of Qliance direct primary careDirect primary careIn the USA Direct Primary Care is primary care offered direct to the consumer, without insurance intervention. It is an umbrella term which incorporates various health care delivery systems that involve direct financial relationships between patients and health care providers.One niche variant of...
provider - Pioneer in Communications: Bill Boyles, editor and publisher of the Consumer Driven Market Report and the Health Market Survey