Companies best at managing their healthcare costs scored a coup in 2013.

While the average company in a survey by Towers Watson saw the cost of their health care plans increase by 5.5 percent, TW's "best performers" reported an increase of only 1.6 percent.

That finding is contained in the pages of the 19th annual Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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