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Has Healthcare Cost Shifting Gone Too Far?

New report emphasizes tradeoff between employee productivity and companies' shifting of healthcare costs to those employees.

By Dan Cook, BenefitsPro | Updated on March 21, 2016

health healthcare cost shifting employeesThe most obvious trends among employer-sponsored medical plans have been well documented: broad cost-shifting to employees, deductibles on the rise, specialty prescription costs skyrocketing.

But beneath these high-level plan characteristics lies another level that is not as well quantified. In its 2016 Medical Plan Trends and Observations Report, leadership and technology consulting firm CEB digs deeper into plan characteristics that emerged this year.

Virtual Care

CEB’s research discloses a 50 percent gain in the number of companies in the survey that say they are using telemedicine services—one of the largest jumps in any category. More than a third now offer these services; by 2018, that will grow to 64 percent.

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