Recent Data on Health Benefits from the National Compensation Survey
Results of Selected Medical Benefits Survey Released
The National Compensation Survey has released a report on additional medical benefits not previously published in its recent survey of benefit provisions. The following are the 12 additional benefits included in this report: emergency room visits; ambulance services; diabetes care management; kidney dialysis; physical therapy; durable medical equipment; prosthetics; maternity care; infertility treatment; sterilization; gynecological exams and services; and organ and tissue transplantation. The findings presented include information on the coverage or exclusion of each of these benefits and the type of limits imposed on them.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 directs the Secretary of Labor to conduct a survey of employer-sponsored health plans to determine the benefits typically covered by employers, and to report the results of the survey to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This study was conducted at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services to supplement the medical benefit provisions regularly published as part of the National Compensation Survey’s (NCS) employee benefits program.
The full version of the report is available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/sp/selmedbensreport.pdf. The 12 additional medical benefits come from the same sample that yielded data for NCS: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2009, available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/detailedprovisions/2009/ebbl0045.pdf.
Employee Benefits
Employer Cost Trends
Published Articles
- “Program Perspectives on Outpatient Prescription Drug Coverage” Program Perspectives, August 2011 (data on access and participation rates plus coverage trends for private industry workers).
- “Program Perspectives on High Deductible Health Plans” Program Perspectives, April 2011 (data on participation and comparisons with traditional plans and features of health savings accounts).
- “Program Perspectives on State and Local Government Benefits” Program Perspectives, January 2011, (includes data on access to health benefits).
- “Consumer-Driven Health Care: What Is It, and What Does It Mean for Employees and Employers?” Compensation and Working Conditions Online, October 2010.
- “Program Perspectives on Fee-For-Service Plans” Program Perspectives, October 2010, at http://www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol2_issue5.pdf.
- “Program Perspectives on Combined Benefit Plans” Program Perspectives, July 2010, (new data series on employee access to medical care and retirement benefits).
Last Modified Date: April 12, 2012
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