John Zern

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  Employers taking 'bold steps' with health benefits

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  March 4, 2013

  Don’t count on employers to stop offering health benefits altogether, but do count on big changes in how they offer the benefits.

• No more wait-and-see for employers

  By Jenny Ivy  |  June 28, 2012

  Employers have been in wait-and-see mode pending the Supreme Court decision on health care reform legislation. If the court had overturned it, several mandates would have been scrapped for employers. Now they will need to quickly turn their attention to fulfilling requirements that face serious penalties for non-compliance.

• Employers looking at corporate health exchange model

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  March 8, 2012

  Moving forward, 94 percent of employers are committed to offering and financially supporting some type of health benefit coverage for employees, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt, a human capital consulting firm in Chicago.

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  Per worker health costs could exceed $10K

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  October 3, 2011

  An aging work force, poor employee health and costly medical conditions are expected to push health care costs per employee past the $10,000 mark for the first time in 2012.

• Employers look to employees to lower health care costs

  By Ginny Kipling  |  June 2, 2011

  A new survey suggests employers are looking to employees to help cut rising health care costs, some offering incentives to encourage healthier behavior, or in an opposite defense, implementing penalties if goals are not met.

• Health care costs surge for everyone

  By Jenny Ivy  |  October 1, 2010

  Experts at Aon Consulting say more people are making monthly contributions to COBRA.

• Double-digit health care cost increases expected in 2011

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  September 15, 2010

  Medical plan costs are predicted to grow at double-digit rates in the next 12 months, according to Aon Consulting's 2010 Health Care Trend Survey.