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Employers Look Beyond Cost-Shifting

An increasing number of employers will significantly enhance their health benefits by offering or planning to offer tools, wellness programs, quality information, and pay-for-performance programs, according to a report released today by Hewitt Associates.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of the 450 employers Hewitt surveyed plan to take more aggressive, multi-year approaches to improve health care options offered to workers. This goes against the current thinking by many in the benefits industry who predicted that employers will shift more costs and responsibilities to employees to control spiralling medical costs.

Article provided by BenefitNews - April 19, 2007

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