The 2014 Milliman Medical Index release reveals continued above GDP and personal income growth in the costs of health care for the average family.
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The 2014 bSwift benefits survey looks at trends in health benefits, with a focus on wellness, defined contribution and automation.
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Many employers are self-funded for their health benefit plans. Most of these employers also have reinsurance or stop-loss coverage for those plans and Milliman describes current characteristics of that reinsurance.
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A brief from the American Academy of Actuaries discuss major factors influencing the exchange insurance premium rates for 2015.
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A survey from Buck Consultants finds that in 2014 employer health plans are expecting about an 8.5% to 8.7% increase in medical costs, which likely would lead to at least similar-sized premium increases for the next year.
ww.buckconsultants.com/portals/0/publications/press-releases/2014/NR-National-HC-Trend-Survey-2014-0515.pdfA report from ReviveHealth gives the results of its 8th annual survey of hospital systems regarding their perceptions of payers, which as expected, aren't great.
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The Corporate Executive Board and HighRoads put out results of a survey of employers regarding certain features of their plans.
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A study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that young adults who obtain health insurance continue to use the ER at very high rates, and while they have higher overall health spending than their uninsured peers, they have the same level of out-of-pocket spending. You can lead em to the insurance, but you can't make em drink it right.
http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(14)00112-8/abstractADP manages payroll and some aspects of benefit administration for a very large number of companies, so it has access to a lot of useful data. Some of this is…
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A survey and report from Rand gives estimates on who has recently enrolled in what forms of health insurance, which suggests that most of the new enrollment is actually due…
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According to an article in the Fiscal Times based on a Morgan Stanley survey of brokers, small group and individual health insurance policies sold outside the insurance exchanges are seeing the largest premium increases in the history of the survey.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/08/Health-Insurance-145-Million-Get-Massive-Increases?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12439520&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_zHcf0gyDaRDDTD409Tjt7zA3we4Vy0uQjDOZ4qRGbVHxMKdDS_hDBcaZsx3z18N6AbKJhfg7Ofz66G15zDj33Awy2Jw&_hsmi=12439520It is employee survey week!! First we look at results from a survey Mercer did of workers regarding retirement, health benefit and other matters.
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A Statistical Brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality describes characteristics of employment-based health insurance in 2012, based on Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.
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An article from Sherlock Company describes favorable characteristics of independent or provider-sponsored health plans.
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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 khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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