Fact Based List:
Employers' top ten challenges in maintaining affordable benefit coverage
Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 00:26
- Employees' poor health habits: 67%
- High-cost catastrophic cases and end-of-life care: 41%
- Under Use of Preventive Services: 41%
- Poor Employee Understanding of How to Use the Plan: 30%
- Overuse of Care Through Employees Seeking Inappropriate Care: 24%
- Poor Information on Provider Costs: 21%
- Higher Costs Due to New Medical Technologies: 19%
- Overuse of care through providers recommending too many services: 14%
- Poor Quality or Misuse of Care Because Primary, Specialty, and Facility Care not Integrated: 13%
- Changes in Workforce Demographics/Cultural/Geographic Disparity: 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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