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Annual Cigna survey finds consumer-driven health plan members more engaged, less costly

By Brian Dolan 08:20 am April 23, 2014

For the eighth year in a row, health insurance company Cigna has released results from a comparative study of its consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) members to its other members enrolled in traditional PPOs and HMOs. The actual claims data from more than 3.6 million Cigna members were used in the study, and Cigna concluded -- as it has in years past -- that members enrolled in CDHPs were more...

Consumer-driven health plan members are richer, healthier, educated, but not younger

By Jonah Comstock 12:05 pm April 24, 2013

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) released population data from eight years of surveying consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) customers. The newly released data shows some unexpected findings about the population of CDHP users: namely that in most years, CDHP enrollees tended to skew older than traditional plan enrollees. That might come as a surprise, since MobiHealthNews reported in...