This chapter’s objectives are to: Meaning of employee benefits, fundamentals of group insurance, group life insurance plans, group medical expense insurance, traditional indemnity plans, managed care plans, consumer-directed health plans, recent developments in employer-sponsored health plans,....
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Trang 3– For example, if an employee is well enough to go to
work, he or she likely will be judged well enough to be insured without passing a medical examination
Trang 4– For employee groups, however, this possibility is not a problem
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• It is also considered best from an underwriting perspective if there is a flow of persons through the group so that the
younger members replace the older members over time
loss experience tends to be more stable – Expected losses
• Insurers are often interested in specific design features of a group insurance program because such features may have
an impact on the losses experienced by the group members
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– Insurers usually pay lower commissions to their group sales force than to those selling individual insurance
– Because individual selection is not required, group
underwriting expenses tend to be lower than would be the case if a similar number of persons were to be
insured on an individual basis
– Employers may handle some administrative tasks for employee groups
• Such as recordkeeping and the collection of employeepaid premiums
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Trang 22• Many employers have made substantial cuts in their retiree health benefits and others have eliminated the benefits
entirely
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Trang 31– The amount of monthly contribution that is required of the participating employee
– The amount of costsharing that will be incurred by the employee at the time medical services are sought
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• Some employers will continue to cover this employee in the group plan
Trang 40– When offered, benefits are usually restricted primarily to fulltime workers and are designed as one or more of the following types
• Sick leave plans, short term disability income plans, and long term disability income plans
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Trang 42• Often called salary continuation plans
• Usually designed to pay the full amount of an employee’s salary during periods of temporary disability
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Trang 45– Gaps and overlaps in payment periods sometimes
result
– Employees who are confronted with potential gaps
may want to make individual arrangements to fill those gaps
• With either individual disability income insurance or personal savings dollars
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