{"id":523904,"date":"2026-03-14T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:24:06","slug":"rising-benefit-costs-ubs-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523904\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising benefit costs | UBS United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit costs continue to rise<\/p>\n<p>Employer-sponsored benefits\u2014especially health coverage\u2014remain a major and growing expense for many organizations. Survey-based estimates put average employer health benefit costs at about $17,496 per employee in 2025 (roughly 6% year over year), with projections exceeding $18,500 per employee in 2026 (about 6.7%)1. What\u2019s driving this growth? There are a number of factors, including higher pharmaceutical spending, increased use of GLP\u20111 medications, continued price inflation in healthcare delivery and growing utilization of services.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benefit costs continue to rise Employer-sponsored benefits\u2014especially health coverage\u2014remain a major and growing expense for many organizations. Survey-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-523904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}