12/11/2001: Using Carve-Outs to Shave Health Costs (Workforce.com; one-time registration required)Excerpt: " When a company 'carves out' a portion of its health-care benefit plan, the employer is purchasing that portion of benefits from a specialty vendor. Rather than having, say, United Health Care handle every aspect of benefits, an organization might use United for everything except mental health."
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