Health Care

Insurance Pools

An organization of insurers or reinsurers through which particular types of risk are shared or pooled. The risk of high loss by a particular insurance company is transferred to the group as a whole (the insurance pool) with premiums, losses, and expenses shared in agreed amounts.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

An organization of insurers or reinsurers through which particular types of risk are shared or pooled. The risk of high loss by a particular insurance company is transferred to the group as a whole (the insurance pool) with premiums, losses, and expenses shared in agreed amounts.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Insurance Pool
  • Pool, Insurance
  • Pools, Insurance
  • Health Alliances
  • Alliance, Health
  • Alliances, Health
  • Health Alliance

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify geog if possible

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History Note

89

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Previous Indexing

  • Insurance, Health (1971-1988)
  • Insurance, Liability (1971-1988)

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Tree Number

  1. N03w.219w.521.576w.570

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Insurance Pools. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015271. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015271
  2. Insurance Pools. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70471792