Employer Health Care Costs to Increase by 10.5% for 2010

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Employer health care costs are projected to increase by an average of 10.5% by August 2010. According to health care insurers surveyed, point of service (POS) plans and health maintenance organizations (HMO) will increase rates by 10.4%. Preferred provider organizations will increase rates by 10.7%, and consumer-driven health care plans will increase by 10.5%. The projected cost increases are slightly lower than last year’s projected increases for HMO and POS plans and about the same as the 2009 increases for PPO and CDH plans. These . . .