The average cost of health coverage offered by employers pushed toward $19,000 for a family plan this year, while the share of firms providing insurance to workers continued to edge lower, according to a major survey. Annual premiums rose 3% to $18,764 for an employer plan in 2017, from $18,142 last year, the same rate of increase as in 2016, according to an annual poll of employers performed by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation along with the Health Research & Educational Trust, a nonprofit affiliated with the American...
The average cost of an employer - funded family healthcare plan in the US has risen to almost $ 200 , according to a poll of experts conducted by the Kaiser Family institute and the Health Research & Educational Trust . That represents a 3 % increase in average annual plan premiums from 2015 . Plan prices , which are usually split between employees and firms , rose a similar amount in the previous year .