The Handbook of Employee Benefits: Health and Group Benefits 7/E, 7th Edition

PART TWOMedical and Other Health Benefits

In this part, the critically important topic of medical benefits and issues is explored. Of prime importance in any discussion of medical benefits is the subject of cost containment—a topic so important today that it is referred to, either explicitly or implicitly, in all the chapters in this section.

Part Two opens with a discussion of the basic designs and strategic consideration of health plans in Chapter 4. The next three chapters all deal in one way or another with recent ways of dealing with health care cost containment. Chapter 5 covers demand-side approaches to cost containment, Chapter 6 deals with managing and measuring care management intervention programs, and Chapter 7 examines consumer-driven ...