Cowden Associates' 2007/2008 Tri-State Employee Benefits Survey featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Cowden Associates' annual employee benefits survey reports that enrollment in [high-deductible and "consumer-driven" health care] plans, and the availability of the plans, increased over last year -- today, 8.8 percent of survey participants offered employees high-deductible plans, up from 2.5 percent in last year's survey.

That's a big increase, but the market for such plans is peaking, or at least appears to be, said Cowden Executive Vice President Vince Wolf. Of employers who don't offer such plans, 84 percent said they "are not likely" to or "have no interest" in offering them in the future.

Read the full article at the Post-Gazette website.