Employers Still Pay Majority of Premiums

To keep costs under control, HR managers plan to reconstruct their benefit plans, lean on pharmacy benefits managers, and encourage employees to be wise health care consumers. Still, employers continue to pick up about 75% of the cost of health care benefits, and even slightly more (79%) in 2005, according to Towers Perrin’s 2005 Health Care Cost Survey. The average total cost for medical care coverage in 2005 is $7,811 per employee, an increase of 88% in eight years.