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US employer medical spending will climb 6% next year.<\/p>\n

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Medical costs for US employers are expected to grow 6% in 2020, marking a four-year high following a plateau in growth that’s persisted since 2017, according to a new PwC report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, we’ll likely see an upsurge in employer spending on drugs and on care for the swelling volume of adults living with chronic illnesses: 62% of adults covered by an employer health plan have a chronic or complex chronic condition, and these individuals rack up as at least 3.5 times more in costs than healthy employees.<\/p>\n

Virtual care has shown promise for employers in mitigating overall healthcare spending.\u00a0By steering employees toward telehealth, employers saved $216 per visit via First Stop Health, for example. And employers should be able to herd a significant portion of employees over to virtual care, considering almost half of consumers said they’d be willing to ditch traditional in-office visits for telehealth.<\/p>\n

For this research, HRI conducted 55 in-depth interviews with health industry executives, health benefits experts and health plan actuaries whose companies cover more than 95 million employer-sponsored large group members. HRI also analyzed results from an HRI national consumer survey of 2,500 US adults as well as from PwC\u2019s 2019 Health and Well-being Touchstone Survey of more than 550 employers from 37 industries.<\/p>\n

Other key findings on PwC\u2019s Health Research Institute were:<\/p>\n