Fact Based List:

Employers' top ten challenges in maintaining affordable benefit coverage

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 00:26


  1. Employees' poor health habits: 67%
  2. High-cost catastrophic cases and end-of-life care: 41%
  3. Under Use of Preventive Services: 41%
  4. Poor Employee Understanding of How to Use the Plan: 30%
  5. Overuse of Care Through Employees Seeking Inappropriate Care: 24%
  6. Poor Information on Provider Costs: 21%
  7. Higher Costs Due to New Medical Technologies: 19%
  8. Overuse of care through providers recommending too many services: 14%
  9. Poor Quality or Misuse of Care Because Primary, Specialty, and Facility Care not Integrated: 13%
  10. Changes in Workforce Demographics/Cultural/Geographic Disparity: 11%
  11. Poor Information on Provider Quality: 11%


Source: 2010 Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care Report. National Business Group on Health/Towers Watson.
Source URL: http://www.towerswatson.com/united-states/research/1258



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