Protecting the Bottom Line: A Guide to Stop-Loss Insurance for Self-Funded Health Plans 

by Zach Gerhardt

For many organizational leaders, increasing healthcare costs have been an ongoing concern for multiple decades. There are levers to pull that can help employees’ quality of life while saving the company money, but many strategies can seem overwhelming. The first step in course correcting a company health plan is being self-funded. That can seem confusing or scary, but that’s where this book can help.

Protecting the Bottom Line provides a one-stop-shop guide to stop-loss insurance for self-funded health plans. It reviews the fundamentals of self-funded health plans and takes a deep dive into Specific and Aggregate Stop Loss insurance along with guidance to make sense of how it all works. There are numerous examples throughout that help breakdown the complex topics to easily digest the information which can then be used to further your career and help other organizations if interested. This book is a great resource for benefit professionals that work for insurance companies, brokerages, consulting houses, point solution vendors, or internal HR and finance professionals who help manage their company’s benefit programs.

Pages: 141

ISBN: 978-1-62249-693-8