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Each year, employers grapple with the ever-rising costs of healthcare by adjusting their budgets or reducing coverage to make room for inflated costs. Increasingly, they’re looking for a better way.
“The level of price intolerance has been met, and for many employers, exceeded,” says Oliver Ayres, president of Key Benefit Administrators. “And because of that, they’re really being forced to look at alternative methods.”
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