title: Complementary health care: a welcome addition to an employee benefits program.
abstract: One up-and-coming approach to controlling health care costs is complementary health care, which does not rely on advances in high-tech, invasive technology or expensive new pharmaceuticals, but rather focuses much more on the high-touch, direct practitioner care. It often offers lower cost alternatives to traditional medicine.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: DeVries
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014481:United States