Top 10 Insight articles of 2021

Our top 10 list shows how challenges like the pandemic and legislative changes have had an impact on our industries.

1. Our most read report was the 2021 Milliman Medical Index, which put the cost of healthcare for a hypothetical American family of four at $28,256.
2. Employer health plan sponsors and insurers learned about new provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and its impact on the industry.
3. As ASEAN countries gradually opened up their borders throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, insurers had to adapt to changes in travel insurance.
4. Changes in regulations for hospital price transparency in the U.S. healthcare system meant hospitals and health systems are required to publish price data for the first time.
5. We learned about the pandemic’s effect on U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans in our 21st annual Corporate Pension Funding Study.
6. We reviewed the significant impacts of the House Bill 3360 on medical professional liability.
7. We examined social inflation’s causes and drivers, the impact to data, metrics, and forecasts, and put forward 10 mitigation strategies.
8. Policy proposals in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 included access to coverage, both for the uninsured and for those who have lost their employer-sponsored coverage.
9. Readers were interested in the impact of employer vaccine mandates to the U.S. workers’ compensation system.
10. Four brief case studies demonstrated how two provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 could impact plan sponsors and give some relief in these difficult economic times.