REFERENCE SOURCES OF insurance terms

Survey definitions from:

¨ The National Compensation Survey definitions (BLS),

¨ The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey definitions (AHRQ), and

¨ The National Employer Health Insurance Survey definitions (NCHS).

Definitions from other Federal agencies and surveys, such as:

¨ The Current Population Survey (BLS/Census)

¨ ERISA-related definitions (from PWBA)

Glossaries and informational papers from websites such as:

¨ OPM’s Federal Employees Health Benefit Plans (glossary and specific plan booklets),

¨ Blue Cross / Blue Shield,

¨ The National Center for Policy Analysis, and

¨ The Health Insurance Association of America.

Publications such as:

¨ Employee Benefit Plans: A Glossary of Terms, Ninth Edition 1997, Judith A. Sankey

- Editor, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

¨ "Fundamentals of Employee Benefit Programs, Fourth edition"

¨ "Managed Care Plans and Managed Care Features: Data from the EBS to the NCS",

Cathy A. Baker and Iris S. Díaz, Compensation and Working Conditions, Spring

2001

¨ EBRI Notes Vol. 16, no. 7, July 1995

¨ HIAA Source Book

Personal communications with staff from some of the data sources cited above.