The purpose of this book is to provide HR professionals and other business executives with key health care benefits measures. In business, where the need to measure is strong, benchmarking can help identify an organization'sstrategic benefits plan's strengths and weaknesses, create a framework for managing change and encourage employees toward continuous improvement.Yet for some HR professionals, when it comes to measuring benefits plans, concrete measures can feel elusive. Numbers that relate to the context of a specific business, particularly the same industry, employee size, andgeographic location, are usually difficult to find. But it is precisely this organizational profiling that is most beneficial to enable similar organizations to compare themselves to each other.The 2015-2016 Health Care Benchmarking book contains more than 90 metrics about health care plans, such as premiums, deductible and co-pay amounts, which are detailed enough to assist HR professionals in managing benefits plans for their organization.