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July 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM
Health benefits cost U.S. employers a lot, but 2017 price trends were a lot gentler for typical U.S. employers than for employer health plan sponsors in much of the rest of the world.
Analysts Mercer, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies, look at 2017 medical cost trends.
U.S. employers held per-employee cost increases to 2.6% in 2017, according to the analysts.
Employers in the rest of the world averaged an increase of 9.5%.
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One of the reports, posted here, reviews health benefits trends in the United States. The other report, posted here,
The analysts based the U.S. results on a survey of employers, and the results for employers outside the United States on a survey of insurers.
Here are three things the analysts found.
1. Underlying costs are rising quickly in much of the world.
