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Practice Guidelines and Private Insurers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Christine W. Parker
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Practice guidelines are an increasingly relevant feature of health insurance. One hundred and seventy-eight million people in the United States have some form of private health insurance coverage; coverage for 150 million of them is employment-related. Traditionally, this coverage was provided by employers purchasing a group contract under which an insurance carrier provided indemnity coverage for employees—that is, the insurance company paid all usual, customary, and reasonable charges incurred by an employee for medical care, subject in some cases to an annual deductible and to a percentage of covered expenses, co-paid by the employee, for each service. In recent years, however, employers in greater numbers have switched to so-called self-insurance plans in which employees’ health care claims are paid directly by the employer (although an insurance company or other third party may be retained to administer the claim payment process).

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 57 - 61
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1995

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