Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium presents major results of the group's discussions on the practice notes for large group medical and stop-loss insurance including the definition of small groups, the rating structure, adequacy of asset determination and methods for testing reserve adequacy.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington Annual Meeting discuss the actuarial, business, clinical, and ethical issues related to physician ownership of health plans.

Description: This 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium session is an open forum on short-term and intermediate risks in health insurance today. This forum will also discuss HMOs and the valuation actuary.

Description: In this session on the topic of health insurance valuation issues, the topics covered included Sarbanes-Oxley considerations, internal replacement Standards of Practice, self-funded plans, and long-term-care insurance developments. From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored some of the general issues applicable to the appointed actuary, particularly from a health insurance perspective: 1. What it means. 2. How it developed. 3. What are the duties? 4. To whom is the appointed actuary responsible? 5. What kind of product the appointed actuary has to produce?

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers living benefit riders including benefit designs, regulatory activity, tax status, pricing considerations and reserves.

Description: This session is about health insurance cash-flow testing through liability and asset modeling for individual disability income insurance and health valuations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session was about provider network building in nonmetropolitan areas. Question addressed: 1. How can an effective delivery system be built to serve rural areas? 2. What influence will health care reform have on such systems? 3. Does a single-payer system make sense for such populations? 4. How does health care reform impact nonmetropolitan markets?

Description: Panelists discuss various managed care strategies and their experiences with how well these strategies have been implemented in the individual and small group market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.