Healthcare DIVE February 20, 2020
More employers, fed up with the ever-rising cost of healthcare, are turning to riskier insurance arrangements, swayed by messaging from brokers to ditch the status quo.
For years, large employers opted for self-insured plans as they had enough employees to spread the risk of a potentially high-cost year due to severe illnesses or injuries. Smaller employers tend to pick fully-insured plans in which the insurer takes on the risk and pays claims as they arise throughout the year.
Now there are signs that more employers, even smaller ones, are making the jump to the riskier arrangements, in some cases known as administration services only plans or ASOs.
That includes the owner of an auto group in North Carolina, who cautioned...