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.
To help control those increases and help avoid health care reform’s Cadillac tax, employers are planning to use a wide variety of cost-sharing strategies.
