A hospital self-insurance program: employee medical benefits.
Many hospitals have explored self-insurance to help keep insurance costs down for medical malpractice and workmen's compensation. Before leaping to adopt this new approach, however, a hospital must analyze its its advantages and disadvantages, variables affecting program costs and ways to quantify the risks.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D008824:Michigan; D014481:United States