Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the techniques for understanding and analyzing trends in medical care, including: utilization and cost components, analysis of cyclical behavior, use of econometric models, and aggregate trend vs. employer-specific needs.

Description: This session at the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting focuses on mental health care, including issues with treatment, managing cost, benefit structures, managed care concepts and utilization review.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about PPOs- what they are, how they fit into the current managed care environment, how they fit into different markets, what products they compete against, their effectiveness at controlling medical costs, their effectiveness at meeting employer needs, and what to expect in the future. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This article discusses the role that actuaries can play in health care mergers and acquisitions.

Description: In light of nonprofit health insuring organizations converting from nonprofit to for profit status and with the flurry of health maintenance organization M&A activity, this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses actuarial techniques used to measure 'value' and the issues surrounding such valuation.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses cash management, managing the bank account, lockboxes, the interface between the collection and investment departments and cash forecasting techniques. It also covers cash flow patterns of terms insurance and cash flow considerations of group products including HMO's. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at how a managed care plan can know whether it is doing a good job on utilization review, if there is room for further reduction in utilization, and how a plan should prevent under-utilization.

Description: This is a teaching session on the techniques for improving management information in the group health line. From Record Vol. 8, No. 4

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Discusses how actuaries can contribute to society through public service, and relates that to the articles in this newsletter.