Consultants and health plan startups are redefining health coverage by creating innovative self-funded solutions that tackle rising costs and gaps in traditional plans. These new models combine ...

Providing health coverage to your employees can feel like a balancing act — you want affordability without compromising on care. If you’ve assumed self-funding is only for large employers, it may be ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Today, about 37% of covered workers are enrolled in fully ...

As health care costs and employer-sponsored insurance premiums rise year after year, the burden on both employer and employee grows more onerous with little relief in sight. A recent survey of 1,700 ...

With a self-insured health plan, your employer pays for your medical claims directly. With a fully insured plan, an insurance company pays claims on behalf of an employer. Both fully insured and ...

Fewer employee benefits are as hotly debated and misunderstood as level-funded and self-insured health plans. There's no denying an ability to tailor benefits to the workforce for cost savings and a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Nearly three years after exiting the state’s small group fully insured health insurance market, Farmington-based insurer ConnectiCare has told brokers it plans to end its self-funded and level-funded ...