title: Medical loss ratios under scrutiny.
abstract: Medical loss ratios indicate the proportion of total operating revenue spent for health care. Managed care organizations monitor these ratios carefully to keep them from surpassing predetermined targets. The same is true of administrative expense ratios. Low medical loss and high administrative expense ratios have become political hot buttons for advocacy groups unhappy with managed care's growing displacement for fee-for-service medicine.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Grimaldi
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D010344:Patient Advocacy