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Hospital Indemnity Insurance a Key Voluntary Benefit

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But if you have an 80-20 plan, your worker is still responsible for her deductible (averaging over $1,600), plus 20% of that cost, or over $6,000. That leaves your worker exposed to a total out-of-pocket cost of over $7,600. Little or no cost to the employer. Few people can cover that.

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Managing Employee Healthcare Costs in 2021

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Managing Employee Healthcare Costs in 2021. Employers are focused on improving employee healthcare by adding virtual or telehealth offerings and including voluntary benefits in 2020, according to research by Mercer. The good news is that both of these initiatives can help reduce healthcare costs.

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Smallest Firms See Largest Health Insurance Hikes

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A new report has found that small businesses that purchase their group health insurance online or through payroll vendors saw the largest premium hikes in 2022, significantly higher than those that went through brokers. The cost for individual group health plans increased 6.7% for the smallest SMBs, compared to just 4.3%