Description: The article reviews high-deductible health plans and poor reimbursement for mental health providers as being the root of 3 devastating problems facing the US.

Description: This paper presents a method involving re-sampling 'with replacement but without random numbers', numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and estimation of confidence intervals for trend in average size claim. In this paper, this method is applied to major medical claims.

Description: This paper presents the commutation functions and net premiums required for reserve calculations with specimen reserve tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This paper addresses pricing stop loss insurance by employee for two benefits combined when the available information included a claims probability distribution for each benefit and the correlation coefficient between the benefits. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1

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: In this paper the authors analyze data from group medical expense insurance claims and show that many insurance loss distributions have very 'heavy tails' because large losses represent a disproportionate fraction of the total cost. They also present a simple model to reproduce and explain the large loss behavior. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990, VOL. 2

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.

Description: This monograph explains the ways actuaries are or could be involved in the self-insured employer health plan marketplace today and in the future.