Health Plan Changes for 2023 (and Beyond) Look to Enhance Affordability

More than 2 out of 3 U.S. employers (67 percent) plan to prioritize controlling rising health care benefit costs over the next three years. And with many employers expecting costs to rise... Read more »

Curbing Rising Health Care Costs

Veteran health care journalist and author Marshall Allen tells the story of a 51-year-old man who needed two MRIs of his back. His nurse practitioner referred him to a nearby hospital-affiliated imaging... Read more »

Cancer Now Top Driver of Employer Health Care Costs, Survey Shows

Health care costs for large employers spiked sharply in 2021 after remaining flat in 2020 due to nonemergency care being delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey shows. In addition, cancer... Read more »

Medical Stop-Loss Premiums Up Nearly 10% for 2022

This year, the average stop-loss coverage premium for self-insured group health plans in the U.S. increased 9.8 percent for the nearly 250 health plans in HR consultancy Segal’s national medical stop-loss database’s... Read more »

Medical Plan Costs Expected to Rise 5.6% in 2023

Employers in the U.S. expect medical plan costs per employee to rise 5.6 percent on average in 2023. While significantly higher than the premium increase of 4.4 percent projected for 2022, the... Read more »

Health Plan Costs Expected to Rise 5.6% in 2023

Employers in the U.S. expect health plan costs per employee to rise 5.6 percent on average in 2023. While significantly higher than the premium increase of 4.4 percent projected for 2022, the... Read more »

IRS Sets 2023 Health Plan Premium Affordability Threshold at 9.12% of Pay

The IRS announced that the 2023 health plan affordability threshold—used to determine if an employer’s lowest-premium health plan meets the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) affordability requirement—will be 9.12 percent of an employee’s... Read more »