Employers look to CDHPs to lower health care costs

Published Updated 5 Min Read

The rising cost of health care will soon be reflected even more substantially in employee cost-sharing. A new National Business Group on Health survey shows that large employers anticipate their health care benefit costs to climb 7.2% in 2012.

To help control those increases ahead of health care reform’s Cadillac tax in 2018, the survey shows employers are planning to use a wide variety of cost-sharing strategies including CDHP premium boosts.

Lisa V. Gillespie
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Lisa V. Gillespie is a freelance writer in Washington, DC.


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