Businesses need to “turn up the heat” in educating consumersabout health savings accounts and health reimbursements accounts,according to Acclaris, a tech consulting firm for account-basedhealth care plans.
The firm recently conducted a survey of more than 300 healthindustry professionals that showed the difficult task the industryfaces convincing consumers to take a chance on HSAs and HRAs.
What's the solution? A little over half of respondents saidemployers should take a more active role in explaining the benefitsof such plans to workers. Meanwhile, 21 percent said it is the dutyof insurance brokers, 7.5 percent said it should be theresponsibility of the consumers themselves, 3 percent said thegovernment should step in and 10 percent suggested others.
Continue Reading for Free
Register and gain access to:
- Breaking benefits news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
