Description: From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005 Panelists discussed some of the research behind understanding decision-making and how this type of research can be used to enhance the modeling of consumer choice. Discussion of the field of behavioral economics and its potential application in improving assumptions for modeling health care purchasing.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about communication of employee benefit programs to employees, the role communication plays in the financial success of benefit programs today and new approaches being used to communicate benefits.