In a survey conducted earlier this year, Mercer found that 11 percent of large employers will offer employees free coverage in at least one medical plan in 2023 another 11 percent are still considering it. If they made no changes, respondents indicated that the cost for their largest medical plan would rise by an average of 7 percent.ĭespite rising costs, most employers are not planning to increase employees' share of coverage costs in 2023, such as by raising deductibles or co-pays, Mercer reported.Īmong large employers (those with 500 or more employees) responding to the survey, employees will be required to pick up 22 percent of total health plan premium costs, on average, in 2023 through paycheck deductions, unchanged from 20. The projected increase of 5.6 percent reflects changes that employers plan to make to hold down cost. 'Those may well come in higher as insurance carriers hedge their bets in today's volatile health care market,' he added. Patel cautioned that while most large, self-insured employers have a good sense of their 2023 premium costs at this time, many smaller, fully insured employers have not yet received renewal rates from their health plans.

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