{"id":26013,"date":"2026-05-26T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26013"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:50:31","slug":"employer-health-costs-jump-7-9-in-2026-5-report-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26013","title":{"rendered":"Employer health costs jump 7.9% in 2026: 5 report findings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Mackenzie Bean for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average American covered by an employer health plan is projected to spend $8,460 on healthcare this year, up from $7,838 in 2025, according to Milliman\u2019s 2026 Medical Index released May 20.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/financial\/employer-health-costs-up-7-9-5-report-findings\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/financial\/employer-health-costs-up-7-9-5-report-findings\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Mackenzie Bean for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The average American covered by an employer health plan is projected to spend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21,200],"tags":[120,385,238],"class_list":["post-26013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-employer-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26013","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=26013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26014,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26013\/revisions\/26014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}