The most obvious trends among employer-sponsored medical planshave been well documented: broad cost-shifting to employees,deductibles on the rise, specialty prescription costsskyrocketing.
But beneath this high level of plan characteristics lies anothertrending level less well quantified. In the 2016 Medical PlanTrends and Observations Report, leadership and technologyconsulting firm CEB and DirectPath dig deeper into plancharacteristics that emerged this year. Along with identifying amore detailed level of plan components, CEB offers its“implications for executives” in which it advises management on thehandling of specific plan pieces.
Virtual care: The research discloses a 50percent gain in the number of companies in the survey that say theyare using telemedicine services — one ofthe largest jumps in any category. More than a third now offerthem; by 2018, that will grow to 64 percent.
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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.
