Contributing factors to the spending growth include managed care organization cost shifting, the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate Repeal, business and economic trends, and demographic trends such as obesity, aging and chronic conditions.
Factors that could slow out-of-pocket spending growth include lower-cost medications, increased use of disease management programs and low premium, high deductible health plans, the press release said.
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