High-deductible health plans are increasingly being offered by employers in four different business sectors, and those employers are adopting a range of strategies — including paying a larger share of premiums — in attempts to get employees to choose them. But employees aren’t necessarily convinced.
That’s according to the most recent report from Benefitfocus, Inc., which finds that in the education, manufacturing, health care and retail industries, the adoption of HDHPs was on the increase, with employers using a range of strategies to encourage employees to adopt them.
While employees worry about the higher out-of-pocket costs associated with HDHPs, lower premiums do attract some. And in 2017, the report says, employers are not only making efforts to make HDHPs more attractive to employees, but are doing the same with health savings accounts.
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