Risk Management

 

A treatise entitled Risk Management Guide to Self-Funded Health Care Plans sets forth the design and administrative options available to all self-funders.

 

Government entity plans (along with hospital plans) have been particularly prone to a notable lack of risk management discipline with their self-funded plans.  While their logic in persistantly ignoring these disciplines is understandable, current cost/benefit analyses call out for a more disciplined and cost-effective paradigm.