WellPoint, Inc., has announced that it will make its consumer-directed health plan products and services available in all states and to all markets beginning Jan. 1, 2007. Previously, WellPoint offered CDHPs only to national employers. Although the number of WellPoint’s members with CDHPs rose 30% since the end of 2005, fewer than 700,000 of WellPoint’s 34 million members have enrolled in CDHPs, according to The Indianapolis Star. CDHPs still have not been embraced by all Americans, a spokesperson for the Center for Studying Health System Change told the Star. “If they’re going to become mainstream, they have to gain more than the toehold they have right now in the employer market,” she said. Read the WellPoint announcement.
