Besides comparison shopping the latest Mercedes, rectangulargrey back splashes, and lip injection doctors (complete with Yelpreviews and Instagram pics from the Samsung Galaxy), there areother trends to keep up with if an employer wants to be "onfleek." (Don’t know what that means? Look it up. I dare you.)

Employers across industry type, geographic location, and sizeoffer consumer driven health plans (CDHPs) these days.

Per the Kaiser Family Foundation 2015 survey of employersranging in size from 2 to 5000+ lives, the percentage of employeesenrolled in a high-deductible health plan(HDHP) packaged with a health reimbursementarrangement (HRA) or health savings account (HSA)qualified HDHP, between 2006 and 2015 has grown from 4 percent to24 percent (15 percent in compatible plan and 9 percent enrolled ina HDHP coupled with an HRA). They did not report informationregarding FSAs, oddly enough.

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