40% Of Health Systems Sell A Health Insurance Product

About 39% of the 626 health care systems in the United States offered a health insurance product in 2016. Of those that offered an insurance product, about 31% offered a health maintenance organization (HMO), 31% offered a preferred provider organization (PPO), and 16% offered an indemnity fee-for-service plan.

These findings were reported in “Provider-Offered Insurance Products Among U.S. Health Systems, 2016” by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative. The analysis is based on the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016. Developed as part of the Comparative Health . . .