Here’s something for benefit advisers to ponder as another open-enrollment season winds to a close and a fresh calendar year offers opportunities to vet new vendors: If employee health and wellness programs actually save the money they claim to save, then why are health plan costs still going up?
Price-Waterhouse Coopers estimates that health premiums will grow 8% in 2025; Mercer says 6%. And that’s a percentage of the highest dollar amount ever paid for health insurance. Yet you’d never know any of this based on all the boasting being bandied about in the marketplace.
