Hospital self-insurance offers some advantages.
Practically all large employers are faced with the problem of providing economical employee insurance in its benefits program. Hospitals have some unique advantages over some other employers in terms of being able to provide self-insurance and eliminate most of the costs of sustaining an insurance carrier.
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