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Article: Employee payments for health care services.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
- Author:
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Employees covered by employer-provided health care plans usually must pay some portion of their health care costs. Employees' costs (or out-of-pocket expenses) can vary widely, depending on family size, types of care received, and the specific provisions of the health care plan. A family of four with $7,000 in annual health care charges, for example, would pay an average of almost $1,000 in out-of-pocket expenses. individual families, however, could incur widely varying out-of-pocket expenses--generally ranging between $100 and $1,500, depending upon the provisions of their health care plan.
Required employee insurance premiums also are part of a family's total ...