Employee-Paid

The average annual health care spending for individuals with employer-sponsored plans reached an all-time high of $5,641 in 2017.

Consumers enrolled in high-deductible health plans are more likely to feel the pain of high drug prices.

The rate of Americans with insurance who still struggle to pay for medical care has been steadily increasing.

During the opening keynote of the recent NextGen Growth & Leadership Summit in Nashville, Nelson Griswold warned that the benefits industry underestimates the threat of single-payer at its own peril.

Companies are aggregating data to create patient "risk scores," which are then used to identify patients in certain risk categories.

Most haven't considered that the payout can cover expenses like estate taxes and education costs, researchers found.