Survey Results

Results from the Managing Health Care Costs e-poll, co-sponsored by the New Directions Healthcare Web Summit and MCOL:

	No	7.0%
	Not Sure	8.7%
	Yes	84.3%
	Grand Total	100.0%

2. Which of the following cost drivers are you most concerned about for 2003 and 2004?

	Administrative Costs	3.5%
	Changing Patient Demographics	7.8%
	Hospital Payment Rates	27.8%
	Hospital Utilization	7.8%
	Liability Issues	5.2%
	New Technology	10.4%
	Other	1.7%
	Physician Office Utilization	3.5%
	Physician Payment Rates	4.3%
	Prescription Payment Rates	13.9%
	Prescription Utilization	13.9%
	Grand Total	100.0%

3. Which of the following strategies do you feel will have the single greatest effect on slowing health care cost increases in 2003?

	Disease Management	12.2%
	Improving operational efficiencies	12.2%
	Increased Co-insurance, Deductibles and Copayments	34.8%
	Increased employee Payroll Contributions	4.3%
	Other	7.8%
	Provider Contracting and Network Changes	10.4%
	Tiered Provider Networks and Patient Copayments	18.3%
	Grand Total	100.0%

n= 115 responses