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-provided family healthcare plan in the US has risen to 18,142, according to a poll of companies conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust. That represents a 3% increase in average annual plan premiums from 2016. Plan prices, which are usually split between employees and firms, rose a similar amount in the previous year.