title: How purchasers evaluate health plans.
abstract: Single health care purchasers and purchasing coalitions are using price, quality and access indicators to help evaluate health plans and foster competition among them. Purchasers also are providing employees with financial reasons to be cost conscious in choosing a health plan and utilizing health services. And they are dispensing information to combat employees' negative perception of managed care.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Grimaldi
mesh_terms: D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D018854:Managed Competition / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care