- Title
- Self-insured health plans.
- First Author
- McDonnell, Patricia A
- Date of Pub
- 1986 Winter
- Pages
- 1-16
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- Arnett 3d, Ross H; Greenberg, Leonard; Guttenberg, Abbie
- Abstract
- Nationwide, 8 percent of all employment-related health plans were self-insured in 1984, which translates into more than 175,000 self-insured plans according to our latest study of independent health plans. The propensity of an organization to self-insure differs primarily by its size, with large establishments more likely to self-insure. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the self-insured benefit was hospital and/or medical. Among employers who self-insure, 23 percent self-administer, and the remaining 77 percent hire a commercial insurance company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan, or an independent third-party administrator to administer the health plan.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Organizations : Data Collection : Government : Health Benefit Plans, Employee/organization & administration : Health Maintenance Organizations : Industry : Insurance, Health/organization & administration : Labor Unions : Religion : Schools : Statistics : United States : United States Health Care Financing Administration
- NTIS Number
- PB88-131586
