Mercer National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

Health & Benefits

Mercer’s National Survey of Employer‑Sponsored Health Plans

With more than 2,400 employers participating in 2018, our annual health benefits survey is the largest of its kind. It is conducted using a national probability sample and results are weighted to represent all US employer health plan sponsors with 10+ employees.

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This Year’s Top Trends

This year’s results highlight three important trends in employer health program management: balancing affordability and choice, creating a culture of health, and moving from cost-shifting to future-focused strategies.

AFFORDABILITY & CHOICE

While many consumerism strategies have been effective in stabilizing cost growth, they have also created affordability issues for some employees. But employers are now working to refine their consumerism strategies to make them work better for all employees.

FUTURE-FOCUSED STRATEGIES

Employers have a key role to play in transforming the healthcare marketplace into a more rational and efficient system. Those that are investing in changes are seeing progress.

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Employers see building a culture of health as a top priority. By promoting workforce health, employers have the opportunity to manage cost without shifting cost.

INSIGHTS SUMMARY

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MODERATE HEALTH BENEFIT COST GROWTH CONTINUES

AVERAGE PER-EMPLOYEE COST TOPS $13,000 FOR MIDSIZED AND LARGE EMPLOYERS

EMPLOYERS’ STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

Employers’ priorities for the next 5 years

A THIRD OF COVERED EMPLOYEES ARE NOW IN LOW-COST CDHPS

1/3 of covered employees are now in low-cost CDHPs

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The Cadillac tax jump-started the use of CDHPs for cost management, and that continues today. The tax is delayed until 2020 but employers still feel the threat.

Tracy Watts

Senior Partner, National Leader for U.S. Health Policy, Mercer US H&B

Following five years of relatively modest cost growth, more midsized and large employers are foregoing the short-term savings offered by cost-shifting.

BETH UMLAND

Director of Employer Research, Mercer US H&B

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Mercer National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

Health & Benefits

Mercer’s National Survey of Employer‑Sponsored Health Plans

This Year’s Top Trends

AFFORDABILITY & CHOICE

FUTURE-FOCUSED STRATEGIES

CULTURE OF HEALTH

INSIGHTS SUMMARY

MODERATE HEALTH BENEFIT COST GROWTH CONTINUES

AVERAGE PER-EMPLOYEE COST TOPS $13,000 FOR MIDSIZED AND LARGE EMPLOYERS

EMPLOYERS’ STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

A THIRD OF COVERED EMPLOYEES ARE NOW IN LOW-COST CDHPS

How to Get Ahead of the Rising Specialty Drug Cost Curve

Health Benefit Trends & Insights You Can Use in 2019

Referenced Based Pricing

Health Benefit Trends & Insights You Can Use in 2019

Harnessing the Momentum Digital Health Innovation

Cracking the Design Code to Engage Employees

The Cadillac tax jump-started the use of CDHPs for cost management, and that continues today. The tax is delayed until 2020 but employers still feel the threat.

Tracy Watts

Following five years of relatively modest cost growth, more midsized and large employers are foregoing the short-term savings offered by cost-shifting.

BETH UMLAND

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Mercer’s National Survey of Employer‑Sponsored Health Plans

This Year’s Top Trends

AFFORDABILITY & CHOICE

FUTURE-FOCUSED STRATEGIES

CULTURE OF HEALTH

INSIGHTS SUMMARY

MODERATE HEALTH BENEFIT COST GROWTH CONTINUES

AVERAGE PER-EMPLOYEE COST TOPS $13,000 FOR MIDSIZED AND LARGE EMPLOYERS

EMPLOYERS’ STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

A THIRD OF COVERED EMPLOYEES ARE NOW IN LOW-COST CDHPS

How to Get Ahead of the Rising Specialty Drug Cost Curve

Health Benefit Trends & Insights You Can Use in 2019

Referenced Based Pricing

Health Benefit Trends & Insights You Can Use in 2019

Harnessing the Momentum Digital Health Innovation

Cracking the Design Code to Engage Employees

The Cadillac tax jump-started the use of CDHPs for cost management, and that continues today. The tax is delayed until 2020 but employers still feel the threat.

Tracy Watts

Following five years of relatively modest cost growth, more midsized and large employers are foregoing the short-term savings offered by cost-shifting.

BETH UMLAND

Health Reform

By the Numbers

Recorded Webinar