Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses possible strategies to identify and control factors causing medical inflation.

Description: This session is about discrimination issues, dealing with HMOs, effect of cost containment provisions, current cost trend levels, recent trends in benefit design and other current issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about regulations proposed or adopted by the NAIC, the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and states to regulate small group underwriting and rate guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session discusses the role the Academy plays in helping policymakers understand the implications of health policy decisions. This session also includes an overview of the Health Practice Council, Hill briefings and recent legislative issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 62

Description: Reported on what was discussed at the first Council meeting of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section.

Description: Panelists discuss the implications of 9 / 11 , such as disaster planning for business operations, geographic concentrations of risk, terrorism clauses, carrier response, legislative changes that may help carriers limit risk, accidental death-only programs, effects on health and disability costs, changes in practices and changes in claim incurrence and payments patterns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 128

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session on physician reimbursements focused on arrangements that might be offered by managed care companies, such as HMOs. It included an overview of key definitions, concepts, and incentive compensation arrangements.