Though the economy is rebounding,still-rising health costs are forcing employers to rethink healthbenefit plan designs.
According to a survey by the National Business Group on Health,60 percent of employers will increase the employee share of healthbenefits costs this year.
While a handful of employers plan not to offer health plans to employees anymore, othershave begun increasing premiums, or are replacing flat co-pays withcost-sharing or offering high-deductible plans coupled with healthsavings plans in order to keep offering employee benefits, saysMichele Woodham, director of agency operations at Odyssey OneSource, a human resources outsourcing company.
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