Cost-Containment

Officials from the department's benefits arm will also talk about COBRA.

The DOL order announcement shows that the department is still moving ahead with at least some enforcement actions.

As sharply rising health care premiums eat into workers' pay, young, healthy professionals are rejecting employer-sponsored insurance. Instead, they're going without coverage or finding cheaper options, saying they can't afford to be on the company plan.

Underscoring these concerns, nearly half of insured adults (46%) say that lowering out-of-pocket costs is the change they'd most like to see to their health insurance.

The health insurer is also ending individual exchange plan sales and spending more on severance costs.

Self-insured employers want ideas about how to hold benefits costs down.