As healthcare costs continue to rise and unemployment falls to its lowest level in almost 50 years, an increasing number of employers are providing health benefits—from insurance coverage to wellness programs—to attract and maintain a healthy workforce. Some companies, though, are still holding out.
A nonprofit Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS) survey of 1,350 decision-makers finds that employers are offering health benefits at the highest levels since TCHS began tracking these data in 2013. This comes at a time when U.S. medical costs continue to rise. According to analysts from PwC, employer medical costs will increase another 6% in 2019. In an effort to mitigate these expenses, employers are exploring various approaches to keeping staff healthy while reducing healthcare costs.
