NU Online News Service, Sept. 28, 12:35 a.m. EDT
Large U.S. employers are expecting to pay an average of $9,821 in health insurance premiums per employee in 2011, up from an average of $9,028 this year.
Hewitt Associates Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill., has published those figures in a summary of results from an analysis of benefits data from 350 large U.S. employers.
The 8.8 percent year-over-year increase is the largest Hewitt has recorded in the past five years.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
