From asking employees to pay a greater portion of premiums to offering incentives for healthy lifestyles, some of the country's largest employers are using a number of cost control measures to counter the expected rise in health care benefits in 2013.
This is according to a new survey from the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association of 342 large employers. The data provided one of the industry's first looks at cost and plan design changes for 2013 as employers continue to make adjustments to their benefit plans to comply with additional provisions of the health reform law.
Employer-provided health care benefits at large U.S. employers are expected to rise 7% next year, said the survey, which was based on responses taken in June from 82 of the nation's largest corporations. That's the same increase they projected for this year, but smaller than employers experienced the previous three years.
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