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Issue Date: Spring 2002 As Costs Rise, Focus Shifts to Consumers This editorial discusses how some employers are using new models of care to shift rising health costs to employees and, in the process, are giving employees more choice and responsibility in their care. Employers Empower Consumers This article discusses some of the steps health care purchasers are taking to deal with rising health care costs, including variations of defined contribution plans. Report Cards Make the Grade This article discusses how some employers are using report cards to help employees in their health care decision-making, as well as to influence providers improve the quality of care they provide. Employer Offers Self-Directed Plan This article discusses self-directed, or consumer-driven, health plans. Specifically, it looks at the consumer-driven plan offered by Definity Health of St. Louis Park, Minn., and discusses how the plan is being used at the University of Minnesota. Purchasers Fail to Address Pain This article discusses the effects of pain on workers and on their productivity. It also looks at the effects of opiods on work place productivity. New Plans Help Patients, Control Costs, Says Physician-Executive In this interview, Lee Newcomer, MD., executive vice president and chief medical officer of Vivius Inc., a consumer-driven health care plan in Minneapolis, discusses his company and the new model of health care that it offers.
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