2024 Benefits Survey
of Hospitals

Survey Overview

Join our survey to gain industry-leading insights to manage your employer-sponsored health plans and benefit offerings.

As the world of healthcare continues to evolve at a rapid pace, healthcare HR and finance leaders seek a trusted source for market intelligence and benchmarking to use as a foundation on which to build their strategies and make critical decisions for 2023 and beyond.

Against this backdrop, our survey focuses on how health systems are evolving their benefits priorities and strategies to stay ahead of shifting talent trends. Covered topics include:

• Benefits being offered to attract and retain talent
• Strategies to articulate total rewards package
• Changes implemented to address workforce challenges (in benefits, compensation, and remote/hybrid work)
• Tactics to compete with nurse staffing firms
• Benefits modification to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Strategies to drive domestic utilization
• Strategies to address wellbeing and employee burnout
• Health plan cost, design and utilization benchmarking, and more.

Complimentary Participation and Results

There is no fee to participate in this survey. All participants who provide a complete submission will receive complimentary access to survey results via e-mail and print. To access results from the 2023 survey, your health system must participate; the report is not available for purchase. All participants can access data cuts that allow you to benchmark your benefits program to other health systems in your region.

How Long Will It Take to Complete?

• For Aon full-service Health Solutions clients: The Strategy Questionnaire will take on average 30 minutes to complete.
• For all others: You will need to complete two steps:
  • Step 1: The Strategy Questionnaire will take on average 30 minutes to complete.
  • Step 2: Compiling documents for the data request will take on average 10 minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who Should Participate?
  This survey is designed for health system decision makers, including individuals with the following titles: CHRO, VP of HR or senior HR/benefits associates.

• How long will it take to complete the survey?
  In most cases, this survey takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. However, some participants will take longer to complete the survey based on their organization’s practices. It will be most efficient to review the questions first to ensure you have all of the responses ready to input in the questionnaire.

• Who is best suited to complete the survey?
  This survey is designed for health system decision makers, including individuals with titles such as CHRO, VP of HR or senior HR/benefits associates. Participants must have visibility into their benefits offerings and a broad understanding of strategic initiatives around talent recruitment and retention; diversity, equity and inclusion; and employee engagement.

• When are submissions due?
  The deadline for all submissions is May 3, 2023.

• Can I download and preview a copy of the survey questionnaire?
  Yes, you can preview the questionnaire in a PDF format by clicking here. Please note: The PDF questionnaire is for informational purposes only; you must submit responses online to join the survey.

• What type of data is collected in this survey?
  This survey collects general information on HR and benefits strategy as well as health plan design, cost and utilization metrics. Member-level data is not collected.

• What are some highlights from last year’s survey?
  Our 2022 Benefits Survey of Hospitals reports provided key findings for 146 U.S. health systems, representing more than 1,200 hospitals and 2.6 million-plus employees. Click here to preview highlights.

• Will my answers remain confidential?
  Yes, all individual responses will remain confidential. Results will only be published in an aggregated manner in accordance with best practices for maintaining data confidentiality.

• When will the survey results be ready?
  The survey results will be shared in October 2023.

Aon Health Solutions clients will need to complete Step 1 only. All others will need to complete both Step 1 and Step 2.

Step 1 - Complete
Strategy Questionnaire Step 2: Complete
Data Request