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to contact us if you have additional questions or need
more information on a subject that's covered here.
What is Accurium? Accurium,
a health care consulting firm, develops consumer
education programs to help address rising
health costs. Our programs promote smart lifestyle
choices, build consumer health skills, and increase
consumer awareness about the true cost of health
care.
By developing more educated and
responsible health consumers, we can help you control
rising health costs.
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What
services does Accurium offer? Accurium
provides a variety of consumer education
and other consulting services to help
employers control health costs. Check out the description
of our services on
this website, or contact
us for more information.
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Who stands to benefit
from working with Accurium? Any
company or organization interested in addressing
rising health care costs — including
employers, health insurers, plan sponsors, administrators,
and others — can benefit from our services.
That’s because health resources can be
better managed when health care consumers use
health resources intelligently and responsibly.
Accurium's consumer education programs encourage
and promote smart health choices.
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Why is consumer
education important? Consumers
don’t understand how much health care actually
costs, and they don’t recognize the value
of the benefits they have. They also don’t
realize that they have a role in helping to keep
health care affordable by making smart, responsible
health choices. Consumer education is vital in
building awareness about these issues.
Rising health costs are affecting individuals,
particularly as employers increasingly shift health
care costs to their employees. Individuals with employer-sponsored
health coverage have a financial stake in rising health
costs, whether they know it or not. Consumer education
can build awareness about that stake — and about
what can be done to use health care resources more
cost-effectively.
We know that consumers already receive
a barrage of messages encouraging them to use certain
health resources, regardless of health need. Consumer
education can help to counteract this.
The right kind of education promotes
smart lifestyle choices, develops health care consumer
skills, and increases awareness about the financial
consequences of individual health care choices. To
make smart lifestyle and consumer choices, consumers
need information. Accurium’s educational programs
can help.
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Why are Accurium's services
effective? Research consistently
shows that health education and promotion programs
yield high returns on investment. Individuals tend
to make more careful decisions when they are more
aware of the financial consequences. Accurium's consumer
education programs build on the strengths
of traditional health education and promotion programs,
while adding information about consumer health skills
and health costs. Our programs work because
they promote – comprehensively – the
right kind of consumer behavior.
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Most importantly,
what can Accurium accomplish in my organization? Our
educational programs will show consumers:
- How to make smart lifestyle choices – and
how doing so benefits them directly;
- How to use the health care system cost-effectively
and responsibly; and
- How much health care actually costs.
If consumers make better
choices, health costs can be better managed and
controlled. That’s to your benefit.
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