Health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements may be starting to have a small but noticeable effect on corporate health plan costs.
Costs for account-based group plans that include prescription drug coverage appear to be up 10.7% this spring, while costs for conventional preferred provider organization plans that include prescription drug coverage appear to be up 11.2%, according to researchers at the consulting arm of Aon Corp., Chicago.
The researchers base those figures on a survey of about 70 large benefits vendors.