title: Self-funding insurance helps cut costs.
abstract: Excessive costs and decreasing benefits created the need to plan a health insurance program that eliminates the insurance carrier and more completely involves the hospital.
mesh_terms: D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000191:economics; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013781:Texas