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February 22, 2012 at 08:18 AM
Workers with self-only group plan coverage and workers from high-income households are contributing more to their personal health accounts; workers with family coverage and low-income workers are not.
Paul Fronstin, an analyst at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), Washington, has reported that finding in a summary of a review of health savings account (HSA) and health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) coverage from 2006 through 2011.
About two-thirds of workers with personal health accounts say their employers provide health account contributions, and that percentage has held steady since 2006, Fronstin says.
But employer contribution levels fell in 2009 and again 2011, as the recession swept in, Fronstin reports.
In 2011, only 24% of the workers said their employers had contributed $1,000 or more to their health accounts, down from 26% in 2008.
SOME DOCTORS HATE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS
The government is using financial incentives to try to get more doctors and other health care providers to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems.
But IVANS Inc., Stamford, Conn., a health information exchange organization, says 39% of providers have no plans to make what the government considers to be “meaningful use” of EHR systems.
