Total health benefit cost per employee reached $15,013 on average in 2022, with small organizations (those with 50-499 employees) reporting slightly higher costs than large organizations. While large employers generally offer richer benefits than small employers, most are able to self-fund their me...
Millions of people with statutory health insurance will have to pay more in 2023. Because more than every second cash register increases the additional contribution at the turn of the year. More than 50 of the 97 health insurance companies have announced increases in contributio...
Instead, they argue, the Pandemic Fund should focus on the overall increases in government spending on public health activities relative to overall government spending, with this being inclusive of core functions of pandemic preparedness but also wider alignment to health system strengthening. This ...
The fund contributions of 7.3% for the employer and employee (total 14.6% for 2023) is the same for all public health insurance companies. The additional contribution varies from the different funds. During 2023, the average parity (additional) contribution rate is 1.6%. It currently ranges from...
The advent of Obamacare in 2014 brought affordable health insurance to millions of Americans over time, as increases in health expenditures are expected to level off. The US mix of private and public health insurance is not the universal health plan of Canadian or European tradition, but the ...
In a column for Reason, Joe Bishop-Henchman and Andrew Wilford of the National Taxpayers Union explain the likely impact of the proposed tax increases. As the mad scientist laboratory for bad tax policy in America, California is constantly striving to come up with poorly designed and harmful tax...
Healthcare Reform News Update for January 12, 2023 Marketplace open enrollment increases 13% over last year With just a few days remaining for the 2023 Affordable Care Act Marketplace Open Enrollment Period, current data shows an estimated 16 million people have enrolled in a health plan, acco...
These are the conditions and catalysts that killed the most Americans in 2023. Dec. 19, 2024 U.S. Life Expectancy Increases The country is clawing back toward where it stood before the COVID-19 pandemic. Dec. 19, 2024 U.S.: No. 1 for 'Burdened by Disease' ...
WELL achieved a record total of 1.5 million total patient visits in Q3-2024 an increase of 41% compared to Q3-2023 and representing 5.9 million total patient visits on an annualized run-rate basis. WELL increases its 2024 annual guidance range for revenue of$985 millionto$995 milli...
The fund contributions of 7.3% for the employer and employee (total 14.6% for 2023) is the same for all public health insurance companies. The additional contribution varies from the different funds. During 2023, the average parity (additional) contribution rate is 1.6%. It currently ranges from...