Health Benefit Cost Growth Increased by 6.9% in 2010

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News After 10 years of stable or slowing health benefit cost growth, in 2010 cost growth increased by 6.9%, with health benefit costs at an average of $9,562 per employee. This was greater than the maximum growth of 6% that was predicted for 2010. For 2011, employers said they were expecting cost increases of about 10%. In 2009, health benefit costs rose only 5.5%. These are early findings of an annual survey on health benefit cost growth in which Mercer Human Resource Consulting surveyed 2,836 public and private . . .