The Department of Labor (DOL) has released to Congress its ninth annual report on self-insured group health plans with data from Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, as well as data from certain financial filings of self-insured employers. Approximately 56,200 health plans filed a Form 5500 for 2016 (the most recent complete data available), an increase of 3 percent from the health plans that filed a Form 5500 for 2015. Of health plans filing a 2016 Form 5500, about 23,100 were self-insured and approximately 4,100 mixed self-insurance with insurance (mixed-insured).
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