Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Explores current and projected Internet trends and how they may change the way the group health and non-medical business operate.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion about individual health rate filings asks the following seven questions and answers each pro and con: 1. Should individual accident and health be guaranteed renewable? 2. Should there be rate increase caps? 3. Should duration rating be permitted? 4. Should optional pre-filing be permitted? 5. Should loss ratios be increased? 6. Should the pending small-group regulation laws apply to the individual policy area? 7. Should the loss ratio be the only determinant in the approval of a rate change? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting presents the risks and rewards of managed Medicaid plans from both the perspective of the managed care organization and the state.

Description: This presentation from Session 71PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting discusses demutalization, mergers of health maintenance organizations [HMOs], and conversion from nonprofit to for-profit. It also addresses the question: How does an actuary value HMOs? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses the relationship among rates for health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and point-of-service plans.

Description: Panelists discuss the NAIC new loss ratio requirements for limited benefit [supplemental] health plans and companies' responses to these requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss dread disease and critical illness products. Products sold in various markets around the world are reviewed.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss how clinicians and actuaries work together in a managed care environment and how they can serve as a resource to each other. Views are presented from both a clinician and an actuary.