Singh: Companies with as few as 200 employees are adopting self-insurance
Rajiv Singh · a16z Podcast | Scaling Healthcare · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:28
Rajiv Singh, healthcare executive at Accolade, notes that the employee headcount threshold for self-insuring healthcare is dropping significantly.
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“And, you know, the number of thousand employees used to be the boundary for employers to move to self-insured. That number's going lower and lower every year. The number of employers who are saying, hey, in this fully insured model, my carrier's not necessarily doing the job I need to control costs. I'm going to take it and manage it myself. And, you know, we're seeing companies with 304 102 hundred employees look at self-insured.”
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