About
Who we are—Experienced & entrepreneurial
Partners is already one of the country’s top 25 medical stop-loss insurance underwriters, and growing. We're staffed to handle a high volume of business and built to scale up. But we also give producers personalized service and direct access to underwriters, and we always will.
Partners is a direct-writing managing general underwriter and, with more than $120 million under management, we’re an industry leader in underwriting medical stop loss for self-insured plans. Our team is experienced, dynamic and known for world-class service, and for giving clients creative solutions and direct access to underwriters. Partners is a full-service firm. In addition to underwriting, we collect premiums and pay claims, and our expertise in clinical risk management saves clients millions of dollars every year.
Our business is backed by A-rated carriers and powered by partnerships with leading insurance administrators, consultants and brokers.
Our Entrepreneurial Origin
1976
Benefits Communications, Inc.— Communications consulting for self-funded and fully insured health and welfare plans
1981
Benefits Consultants of America— Strategic and business consulting for employers with self-funded plans
1986
Alternative Group Plans, Inc.— Marketer of employer-sponsored plans though a national network of independent agents and brokers
1986
Benefit Claims Payors, Inc.— Employer-sponsored health and welfare plans and multiple employer trusts
1992
New York Underwriters, Inc.— Managing general underwriter of excess loss reinsurance for self-funded health plans
1993
Select Healthcare Services— Precertification, utilization review and large case management services for health and welfare plans
2001
Partners Rx Management, LLC — Prescription benefits management for self-funded health plans
2006
Analytic Intelligence, LLC— Software design and consulting services for the prescription drug industry
2016
Partners Managing General Underwriters— Bringing the successful Partners Rx model to the stop-loss underwriting sector
The partnership model
What’s in a name? At Partners, everything.
Here, we do things a little differently: The producers we work with are not just valuable customers, but true business partners. We work with the best of the best, give them great service and solutions and reward them when they help us grow. It’s a model that works!
Partners’ unique, value-building business model give producers a stake in our business and a share in our success. Our leaders created a commercial pharmacy benefits management company, Partners Rx, grew it and sold it for $100 million and shared the proceeds with the company’s producer partners. Now, we’re well on our way to doing the same thing in medical stop-loss underwriting.