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More companies offer consumer-directed health plans.(SHORT TAKES)

Publication: Expansion Management
Date: Thursday, March 1 2007

The number of employers offering consumer-directed health plans continues to grow. However, those companies that are most effective at controlling healthcare costs are combining these plans with other health-related tactics, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide and the National Business Group on Health.

In the survey of 573 large companies, the portion of companies offering consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) increased from 33 percent to 38 percent during the past year. As of five years ago, only a handful of companies offered such plans, which generally i

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