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CL“They Make All These Numbers Up on You.”
That’s how a lot of employers feel during health plan renewals.
Here’s why.
Insurance carriers look at claims history and potential future risk when pricing a plan.
But sometimes those projections include scenarios that may never actually happen.
For example:
An employee might have had a serious condition years ago…
Recovered…
And no longer presents a significant risk.
Yet that history can still influence the pricing model.
Even though most plans have stop-loss protections that limit how much one individual claim can affect the group.
So employers hear things like:
“You have a bad loss ratio.”
“Your group is higher risk.”
“Rates need to increase.”
But the actual financial exposure might be far lower than the narrative suggests.
That’s why understanding how underwriting works is so important.
Healthcare renewals are often driven as much by projections as by reality.
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