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The cost of providing employee health care benefits at the nation’s largest employers is projected to increase 7% in 2014, according to a new survey from the National Business Group on Health, released Wednesday in Washington.
It’s the third consecutive year employers budgeted this amount, the nonprofit association of more than 365 large U.S. employers, said of the survey conducted last May and June of 108 member companies in a range of industries and employer sizes.
Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.
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