The 2010 annual enrollment season saw the opening of the floodgates regarding dependent eligibility, as employers were required under the health care reform law to extend coverage to all dependent children, regardless of student or marital status, to age 26.
Now that the annual enrollment season is behind us, employers are beginning to get a handle on the number of additional dependents who came onto their plan, and the true cost to their plans, all of which is leading to an evaluation of their approach to employee cost-sharing.
