The Consumer-Directed Healthcare (CDH) Roadmap for Employers
ConnectYourCare’s FSA First^sm program enables you to take steps now to prepare your organization for CDH. Employees learn how to become better healthcare consumers – before taking the leap to CDH.

ConnectYourCare provides high-end Internet consumer information tools, a multi-level wellness program, and next generation FSA management with a smart healthcare payment card, at a competitive cost – so there is no risk!

• Partner with experts in healthcare consumerism - ConnectYourCare is the first carrier-neutral platform created for CDH
• Initiate action by beginning a CDH program with value-added tools and educational materials
• Increase employee buy-in through ConnectYourCare’s FSA First^sm communication program
• Create momentum that results in an employee population with a high health IQ
• Take control of your healthcare spending

Features/Options

• Benefits Enrollment and Eligibility
• Healthcare financial claims adjudication, payments and administration for HSA, HRA and FSA accounts
• Smart payment card that enables consumers to maintain multiple accounts with a single card
• Participant advocacy
• Wellness program options

Healthcare Consumer Tools

• Hospital Comparison
• Medical Encyclopedia
• Pharmaceutical Comparison
• Online Drugstore – w/FSA/HSA-compliant flags
• Wellness help
• Care guides for specific conditions
• Pregnancy Center

Employer Benefits
Choice. You choose your broker/consultant, carrier or TPA, and pace of implementation. With these choices, you maintain employer consumerism by selecting the vendors–we work with your broker/consultant to make it happen!

Convenience. ConnectYourCare supplements your HR staff with:

• Employee education tools
• A buy-in strategy and communication plan
• Change management support
• Dedicated account managers

Control. You take control of your healthcare costs. ConnectYourCare will work with your broker/consultant to create effective plan designs that enable you to move to a CDH Defined Contribution model.

Employee Benefits
Choice. Employees have the information to choose their healthcare options through tools that evaluate local medical facilities rated by procedure. In addition, employees are offered alternatives to brand name prescription drugs.

Convenience. We offer employees the convenience of:

• Smart healthcare payment card, integrated with state-of-the-art financial claims and payment technology
• Ability to look up FSA-compliant items
• Paperless claims adjudication process, enabling fastest possible reimbursement of claims
• Customer Support – with optional advocacy services
• Wellness management delivered over the Internet
• IVR automated telephone support for account information

Control. CDH and ConnectYourCare affords employees control of their healthcare dollars, along with the educational tools to make the right decisions.

Did You Know?
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) are a terrific way for your employees to save money on their current out-of-pocket healthcare costs.

New legislation extends the plan year by 75 days and expands over-the counter FSA-compliant items – FSAs are a no-brainer for employees.