2008 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Health Plans – 2007 Financial Review. Overall, Gap Widens Between Most and Least Integrated Plans: A.M. Best’s 2007 Notching Model study results show that total capital and surplus for the study’s health plans increased 40% between 2004 and 2007, and 8% between 2006 and 007.
Date: 9/1/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Mutual Accident & Health – 2007 Market Review. Mutual A&H Insurers Adapt to Changing Markets: U.S. mutual accident and health insurers must adapt and evolve to survive in a sector that that has driven many of them to niche positions in a world of health care dominated by managed care giants.
Date: 5/5/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2007 Special Report: U.S. HMO – 2006 Impairment Review. HMO Impairments Remained Low in 2005 and 2006: The number of financially impaired Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) has fallen substantially to three each in 2005 and 2006 from nearly two dozen annually in the late 1990s, primarily due to stricter underwriting standards, stabilization in medical trends and the industry's improved financial performance.
Date: 12/3/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2007 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned & Affiliated Health Plans – Administrative Expenses. Administrative Expense Growth Slows for Provider-Owned, Affiliated Plans: Provider-owned and affiliated health plans finally have seen some relief from growth in administrative spending. After expenses outpaced revenues for a number of years, the latter exceeded expense growth by 9.24% in 2006.
Date: 12/3/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 6
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2007 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Health Plans – Rating Enhancement Assessment. Notching Model Uncovers Fruits of Integration for Health Care Systems: Total capital and surplus increased 31% between 2004 and 2006 for a group of provider-owned health plans studied by A.M. Best Co. Each year since 2004, 61% of the plans in the study have experienced an increase in capital and surplus.
Date: 10/15/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2007 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Health Plans Underwriting Results. Provider-Owned Health Plans Maintain Stable Underwriting Results: Provider-owned and affiliated health plans took advantage of their unique position to post relatively stable underwriting results in 2006, weathering competitive pricing pressures from national insurers and Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans.
Date: 9/17/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2007 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Invested Assets–2006 Market Review. Provider-Owned & Affiliated Managed Care Companies Invest Conservatively: A conservative investment strategy is helping provider-owned and affiliated managed care companies to weather turbulent credit and equity markets as their asset base expands.
Date: 9/3/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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Administrative Costs Outpace Revenues for Provider-Owned and Affiliated Health Plans: Despite efficiencies sought from technology investments and continuous premium increases, administrative expenses grew faster than revenues over the past five years for provider-owned and affiliated health plans. These plans increased total administrative spending in aggregate 54.7% over the past five years from $2.32 billion in 2001 to $3.59 billion at year-end 2005.
Date: 1/22/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 4
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Capital & Surplus, Top Provider-Owned Health Plans--2005: The profitability of provider-owned or affiliated health plans deteriorated slightly in 2005 from prior years. The capital base continued to strengthen, but at a slower pace.
Date: 11/13/2006 Source: Statistical Studies (PDF) Pages: 3
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Provider-Owned and Affiliated Managed Care Companies Maintain Conservative Investments : Provider-owned and affiliated managed care companies continue to maintain conservative invested asset portfolios. The majority of these companies' invested assets were in cash and short-term investments during 2005. Of the 109 companies included in the study, the average allocation to this investment class was 46%.
Date: 10/2/2006 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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Provider-Owned HMOs Continue Modest Profit Growth: Provider-owned health maintenance organizations (HMOs) improved profit margins and strengthened their capital base in 2004. Similar to the rest of the sector, profits benefited from accommodative pricing and a stable cost trend.
Date: 11/14/2005 Source: Statistical Studies (PDF) Pages: 4
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