National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

Our annual health benefits survey is one of the largest of its kind. It provides trends in benefit cost and plan design and looks at employers’ strategies for managing cost and supporting employees.

2024 survey results: Boosting benefits, managing cost

Shifting trends, cost challenges, disruptive strategies – as always, there is a lot to digest in the results of Mercer’s latest National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, now in its 39th year.  Despite a second year of elevated cost growth – with another predicted for 2025 -- the survey found that many employers enhanced key benefits to support employees and their families in 2024, while pursuing cost management strategies that reflected concerns about healthcare affordability. How did employers add value to their health benefit programs in 2024? Read more in our US Health News blog post. 
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