self-insured

Except that many large employers are self-insured anyway, they only have an insurance company contracted to administer claims, but the employer pays.

For a self-insured employer, the fact that I have a family makes me more expensive to employ.

Here's why I'd be skeptical of using this service if I were a large, self-insured employer.

I used eHealthInsurance and a bunch of similar sites extensively to find my self-insured plan.

I live in south carolina and know a few textile owners as they are self-insured employers (my company sells health benefits programming).

It sounds like working for a self-insured company is strictly worse for employees than working for a company that offers insurance through an insurance company, risk-wise.

In that case, the company may simply declare bankruptcy and the policy holders are left out in the cold -- just as though they had self-insured.

We help self-insured companies build high-quality narrow networks.

Like many companies - they are likely self-insured.

Can't a self-insured company do the same?

Effective October 18, 2012, all claims administrators (insurance companies, self-insured employers, et al) for California workers compensation claims are required to be able to receive bills electronically.

AOL might be self-insured, but I doubt it.

"Except that many large employers are self-insured anyway" Many; it's not all, I'm not sure it's most, and the dynamic I spoke of is still present in smaller employers.