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Healthcare prices are up, and patients are buying less
Healthcare spending by people who get their health insurance at work remained modest last year. Prices edged upwards, but people in employer-based plans made fewer trips to doctors, hospitals and pharmacies. Health spending increased 3.9% in 2013 for roughly 40 million people with health benefits from an employer, according to the latest report from the Health Care Cost Institute. The analysis is based on about 5 billion medical bills submitted to private health plans, offering a snapshot of spending taken from the medical care for nearly one in four Americans with employer-based health insurance...Read More
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