Fully insured plan
In accounting, fully insured plan means a group health plan funded by an insurance policy: the employer pays a fixed premium and the carrier bears the claims risk. Regulated by the state's insurance law through the carrier.
Authority: DOL Technical Release 2014-01 (opens in a new tab). Sources
The lesson that teaches this
From the free founder back-office course, taught on one company's books, with exercises to work it yourself.
What it is not called
Each of these means something else. Use one here and an accountant reading the product notices.
- self-insured
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Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two can't disagree.