AIS's Inside Consumer-Directed Care Celebrates 100th IssueWashington, DC, February 9, 2007 — Atlantic Information Services Inc. (AIS) is pleased to announce publication of the 100th issue of its newsletter Inside Consumer-Directed Care (ICDC). The debut issue was published Nov. 1, 2002, just a few months after the Treasury Dept. clarified the tax treatment of health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). That guidance set the stage for the dramatic growth of account-based health coverage over the next four-and-a-half years. In the first issue, ICDC reported that Definity Health (now a division of UnitedHealth Group), had just 28 employer clients and 50,000 enrollees. Lumenos (now a division of WellPoint, Inc.) was the nation’s second largest CDH firm at the time and had 30,000 enrollees. As of Jan. 1, United’s Definity division had 1,980 HRA clients and 1.14 million enrollees. As of September 2006, WellPoint said its combined HRA and HSA enrollment was 731,000. Inside Consumer-Directed
Care is a biweekly subscription newsletter with timely news and
insightful analysis of benefit design, contracts, market strategies
and financial results, published by Atlantic Information Services (AIS)
in Washington, DC. Visit http://www.AISHealth.com/Products/NewsICD.html.
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