Providing comprehensive health care benefits at an affordable cost is top of mind for nearly every employer in 2024. The latest Employee Health Trends report from the health intelligence platform Springbuk identified three key health issues that will affect how benefits leaders plan, deliver and evaluate employee benefits programs in the coming year.

"Our goal has been to equip employers and their benefits advisors with easy-to-use information to improve employee health, manage costs and understand program impact," CEO Joy Powell said. "To accomplish this, our expert data scientists, clinicians and population health leaders dedicate significant amounts of time and resources to provide our community, customers and partners with these annual trend analyses that go beyond 'what' is driving costs in their population by delivering insight into the 'why.'"

The wide-ranging report focused on three trends and how employers might respond: