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pre·mi·um

(prē'mē-ŭm)

The amount that must be paid to the insurer to maintain the desired health insurance coverage.

premium

(prē′mē-um)

A payment made periodically to a health care insurer in exchange for benefits coverage (indemnity against future expenses).

pre·mi·um

(prē'mē-ŭm)

The amount that must be paid to the insurer to maintain the desired health insurance coverage.

premium,

n the amount charged by a dental benefits organization for coverage of a level of benefits for a specified time.

premium, earned,

n the portion of a policy's premium payment for which the protection of the policy has already been given.

premium rate,

n the price per unit of insurance.

premium tax,

n an assessment levied by a state government, usually on the net premium income collected in that state by insurance companies.

premium, unearned,

n the part of the premium applicable to the unexpired part of the policy period.

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Anticipating this, the minister of finance has been clear in his comments that the OHP is vastly different from the old Ontario Health Insurance Plan premiums that were discontinued in 1989.

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The arrangement is in connection with the performance of services, the employer or service recipient pays all or part of the premiums and the employee or service provider has the right to name the beneficiary or has an interest in the policy cash value.

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No doubt there has been significant movement into captives over the past 15 to 20 years, with market-share projections indicating that the captive premium volume exceeded 50% of total risk-bearing premiums in the United States.

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Both claimant fraud and provider fraud helped inflate the cost of workers comp insurance premiums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, says insurance fraud expert Dennis Jay.

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Its premiums in the states surveyed increased by an average of 23 percent, or nine times faster than Social Security benefits rose.

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