Claims Trend Study 2014

One of our primary benefits partners, Green Shield Canada, recently completed a study of health claiming patterns by age category.  

 

The results are very interesting and may have impact on how you, as an employer, view your health plan. Until recently, extended health care costs (excluding drugs) did not constitute a large percentage of overall costs.  

 

More recently, the average has increased to 1/3 of overall claim costs. Even within our block, we have seen a higher than ever incidence of extended health claims exceeding drugs!

 

Interestingly, plan maximums and plan designs haven't changed much over the past decade yet the claim costs are on the rise.

 

Helping community based non-profits advance inclusive leadership from best intentions to best practices.

The spirit of diversity and inclusion is alive and well in the non-profit sector but sometimes we lack the tools, resources and supports to transform our good intentions into best practices.  To this end, the Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP) in partnership with the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) are set to launch the Embracing Inclusion Project.

The Embracing Inclusion project will be conducting Inclusion Institutes across Ontario in November 2015 and June 2016.

Learn more about this project & how you can participate >

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