healthcare quality measures

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...

Castlight Health takes cost, quality measures mobile

By Brian Dolan 12:08 am March 29, 2012

This week Castlight Health, which offers a personalized health care shopping platform that helps employees better understand the price of medical services and the quality of certain providers, has launched its first mobile app: Castlight Mobile is currently available as a native app for Apple iOS and Google Android devices users, but the company suggests BlackBerry users and others can access the...