HPCI News: 2013 Iowa Employer Benefits Study
To: Members and selected others
Highlights from the 2013 Iowa Employer Benefits Study:
- Despite health reform challenges, employers not likely to drop health coverage
- Iowa employers report a health insurance premium increase of 9% overall
- 53% of Iowa employers currently plan to encourage the use of high-quality hospitals and physicians through plan design requirements or by lower cost-sharing
- The overall percentage of Iowa employers offering health coverage dropped to 77% From 81% in the 2012 study. A greater percentage of smaller employers with fewer than 20 employees reported not offering health coverage in the 2013 survey
- Passing some or all of the increased costs to employees remains high as a likely cost containment strategy (57%)
What will 2014 bring? It will be interesting. See link below.
http://www.dplindbenchmark.com/iowa-employers-report-health-insurance-premiums-increase-9/
Paul M. Pietzsch, MPH
HPCI - IHBA Office
4430 Ashley Park Drive
West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
(515) 778-6300