A BenefitFocus research report looks at trends in employee health benefits by large employers.
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Large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health expect a modest increase in health benefit costs in 2015 but continued cost-shifting to employees.
A survey from the International Federation of Employee Benefit Plans examines employer attitudes toward their health plans and changes they may be making in light of the continuing implementation of health care reform.
A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from the last recession.
Many large employers may consider shifting more employees to part-time status as a result of the implementation of the reform law, according to a survey by ADP, and they may take other actions to minimize their costs under the law.
A new report from the Urban Institute examines the controversial issue of the impact of the Patient Protection Act on businesses of various sizes, showing that for small businesses it may reduce cost, it likely increases the cost for mid-sized ones and is neutral to large companies.
Another luminescent Potpourri, focusing on the ACA’s high-risk pool plan; controlling health spending in Massachusetts; what components of EHRs and HIEs may control costs; another survey of employers and dealing with hospital pricing power.
AONHewitt has released its 2012 Health Care Survey, which largely reviews employer attitudes and actions toward health care coverage. The impacts of the health reform law are obviously foremost on companies’ agendas, with cost increases being the biggest challenge and one that is really unaddressed by the reform law.
Deloitte surveyed a number of employers for their views on the US health care system. Most feel the system needs substantial improvement, particularly in regard to costs and most view the Affordable Care Act as a bad start to fixing the problems.
This edition of our data-packed Potpourri focuses on hospital readmissions, use of computer physician order entry systems, what employers will do after 2014 when all of the health law kicks in, and hospital pay-for-performance programs.
Spring is in the air but take a few minutes to refresh with our latest Potpourri, which includes the Congressional Budget Office’s latest health reform projections, ER use by those with Medicaid or private insurance coverage, the effect of selective outcomes reporting in research, an AonHewitt survey of employers on exchange use, another CBO report on employer incentives for use of TriCare and physician costs to comply with quality mandates.
The Congressional Budget Office has another useful report looking at the impacts of changes in health insurance on employment.
Health care costs can limit small business growth, stunting a major source of new jobs.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
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