With healthcare costs rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade, a wide range of products and services have emerged in an effort to find pioneering ways to finance healthcare coverage and increase consumer awareness of cost and quality.

These methods include tiered provider networks, disease management and consumer driven healthcare plans.

Our speakers address these areas during the 90 minute audio-conference.

Our expert panel includes:

• Lora Hedin, Senior Director, Product Management, HealthPartners
• Alexandria Schweitzer, Assistant Vice President Consumer Driven-Health Care, Tufts Health Plan
• Jim Woodburn, MD, MS, Major Account and Corporate Medical Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

You'll get details on:

• experiences from consumer driven plans in 2003 and expectations for 2004
• leveraging the Internet to help consumers make informed choices
• utilization of HRAs
• cost savings achieved by consumer driven plans
• results to date of tiered approaches
• actuarial implications for payors and providers of tiered networks
• how are consumers responding to tiered networks
• the future of tiered products
• new trends in disease management programs
• what programs have the greatest returns
• driving adoption rates in disease management programs
• ROI and measuring outcomes in disease management.

Who Will Benefit from this audio-conference?

CEOs, medical directors, health plan executives, care management nurses, business development and strategic planning directors.