Long-term care costs continue to increase, but not at the same rate as other goods and services, according to the latest John Hancock Financial Cost of Care Survey.

People are spending 14.7% more – a total of $363 billion – on their health care than “traditionally reported in government accounts,” according to a new Deloitte report.

Exactly half of small business owners surveyed late last year say health care costs are a major concern, according to a new survey.

The potential direct cost-saving potential for employers from establishing workplace clinics is “limited, if it exists at all,” experts say.

Premiums and deductibles have risen “sharply” since 2003 and are outpacing workers’ payroll increases, although the new health reform law may “reverse” the rate increases, according to a new report.

Two insurance agent trade groups say they want Congress will “fix” how medical-loss ratios will be calculated with health reform because the proposed formula factored could “negatively impact” agent and brokers, and their commissions.

Health care service costs for commercial and Medicare insurance programs are rising at a slightly lower rate, according to a Standard & Poor’s analysis.

Large-employer health plans are getting recast in the wake of federal health reform and in the midst of an average anticipated cost increase of 8.9%, according to new research.

Congress has put the health care for older Americans on Medicare at “grave risk” by not stopping the 21% cut in doctor’s payments for serving the federal program, the American Medical Association warned.

The CIMA Cos., an insurance broker with offices in the Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C., areas, has issued a tentative guide for employers on federal health care reform.