Expenditures on physician services amounted to $171 billion in 1993, compared with $13.6 billion in 1970. During this period, the environment in which physicians practice was transformed as a part of the changing health care financing and delivery system. This Issue Brief provides an overview of...

This Issue Brief discusses the evolution of the health care delivery and financing systems and its effects on health care cost management and describes the changes in the health care delivery system as they pertain to managed care. It presents empirical evidence on the effectiveness of managed...

This Issue Brief addresses a wide range of retiree health issues. It reviews the provisions and impact of FAS 106 and includes a discussion of how companies have changed their overall retiree health liabilities. It describes Medicare, the primary source of publicly financed retiree health...

Proposals are currently being put forth to change the health care system incrementally. One area of proposed legislation addresses portability, which allows an individual to change insurers without being subjected to a new waiting period for preexisting conditions. These proposals, discussed in...

This paper examines whether there is variation by worker income on how an HSA-eligible health plan affects health care services use and spending. Does the typically flat-dollar gap between a health plan's deductible and the employer contribution to a health savings account (HSA) have a bigger...

This paper examines data from the SHRM/EBRI 2014 Health Benefits Survey. The survey was conducted in February and March 2014 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) to better understand changes to employer-sponsored health coverage...

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has been conducting “value of benefits” surveys for 20 years to determine the relative importance of different benefits to workers and to assess the role played by benefits in job choice and job change over time. The surveys show consistency in...