Survey: Health savings accounts not well received by employers
Compliance Monitor, October 20, 2004
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Ever wonder what employers are doing in terms of health savings accounts?
A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust found that over the past year, more employers are familiar with and are offering consumer-directed health plan arrangements-specifically those that combine a high-deductible plan with a personal or health savings account option.
However, only a small percentage of employers currently offer a high-deductible plan with a personal or health savings account option.
The survey found that just 6% of all companies said they were "very likely" to offer some type of high-deductible plan linked to a savings account in the next two years.
Twenty-one percent said they were "somewhat likely" to do so.
Large employers with 5,000 or more workers said they were more likely to offer the option: 22% said very likely and 28 percent somewhat likely.
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