Kaiser To Offer Self-Funding Health Insurance Plans

Beginning next year, Kaiser Permanente plans to offer self-funding health insurance programs in which employer groups would pay Kaiser a fee for administering the claims but would pay employee claims themselves. Safeway has used a self-funding plan for years, and Sutter Health is currently switching to a self-funding plan.

• "Kaiser Preparing To Enter Self-Funding Insurance Market" (Hogarth, East Bay Business Times, 5/12).