Fitch Ratings Expands Coverage On HMOs.
Business Editors
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept.
5, 2002
Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings
An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate,
sovereign, and municipal debt....
More
Fitch Ratings Expands Coverage On HMOs.
Business Editors
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept.
5, 2002
Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings
An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate,
sovereign, and municipal debt.
Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is
wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris.
has initiated a program to provide expanded ratings
coverage of the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO HMO health maintenance organization.
HMO
n.
A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and
professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, ) sector in
the U.
S.
by assigning Quantitative Insurer Financial Strength (Q-IFS) ratings.
Initial ratings have
been assigned to 205 HMOs, and are listed below.
The purpose of the Q-IFS program is to provide more comprehensive coverage in the health
insurance and managed care sector to meet the growing demand for our rat
Less
