A national survey of employer-sponsored health plans has found that total health benefit costs rose by 6.1 percent in 2007, the same pace as last year, to an average of $7,983 per employee.
The survey was performed by Mercer consulting, a part of Marsh & McLennan, which also owns the insurance brokerage Marsh.
Their study follows a survey by the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers of insurance brokers released last week that said small accounts of 50 or less employees experienced the sharpest increases since a report done in May (see NU Online Nov. 14).
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