NU Online News Service, Oct. 11, 2004, 4:37 p.m. EDT
U.S. employers should get ready for another year of painful decisions about major medical costs.[@@]
Researchers at Hewitt Associates L.L.C., Lincolnshire, Ill., a human resources consulting firm, are basing that warning on figures from a database of more than 2,000 health plans in 139 communities.