{"id":13286,"date":"2019-05-22T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13286"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:13:17","slug":"employer-plan-deductibles-grew-150-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13286","title":{"rendered":"Employer plan deductibles grew 150% over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>During the past decade, the average health insurance deductible for employer-based coverage climbed more than 150 percent, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthsystemtracker.org\/brief\/deductible-relief-day-how-rising-deductibles-are-affecting-people-with-employer-coverage\/#item-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On average, single Americans with coverage through their employers had deductibles of $1,350 in 2018. That&#8217;s compared to $533 in 2009, according to researchers from the Kaiser Family Foundation. They used claims data from IBM&#8217;s MarketScan Research Database to arrive at the estimates.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/employer-plan-deductibles-grew-150-over-10-years.html\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12764\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) During the past decade, the average health insurance deductible for employer-based coverage climbed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13287,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13286\/revisions\/13287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}