Description: An overview of the issues behind reimbursing providers on a bundled or packaged basis. The article presents the potential advantages offered by the proponents as well as the criticisms and obstacles to implementing this type of payment system.

Description: Panelists discuss key aspects of recent and pending laws and the cost and design implications on group health plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Recent health care reform activity has highlighted the importance of Clinical Integration in improving the quality, safety, efficiency and reimbursement infrastructure of the health care system. This article discusses relevance and implication of regulatory measures, implementation and data issues, and provides an end-to-end example.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: A summary of the 14th Monograph “Health Risk Assessment and Health Risk Adjustment: Current Initiatives” published by The American Academy of Actuaries.'The monograph examines the approaches of two states, New York and California, in implementing or considering risk adjustment provisions in recent legislative reforms.'

Description: This session is about supplemental and specialty health products in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. It also includes a discussion on health care reform for individual health and long-term care products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Results of an SOA survey regarding the expectation for 2015 accruals for 3Rs and cost sharing reduction payments.

Description: Letter from reader about the article Responsible Health Care Reform Part 2: Access to Care with a response from one of the article’s authors. From The Actuary, August/Sept 2010 Vol 7 Issue 4

Description: Results of an SOA survey regarding the expectation for 2015 accruals for 3Rs and cost sharing reduction payments

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.