Health Payer Intelligence January 24, 2018
Increases in high healthcare costs, not utilization rates, led to increases in employer-sponsored insurance spending from 2012 to 2016 according to recent research.
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) found that high care costs were the primary driver of increased employer-sponsored insurance in 2016, which grew by 4.6 percent and exceeded any rate between 2012 and 2015.
A HCCI report of employer-sponsored healthcare spending analyzed claims data from Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and United Healthcare and concluded that healthcare utilization rates either went down or remained unchanged from 2012 to 2016.
With utilization stagnant or decreased, prescription drugs, ED visits, and surgical hospital admissions emerged as the source of increases in employer sponsored health plan spending. The report also indicated...
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