Description: This 1981 session dealt with Risk Classification for Individual Health Insurance. Topics included current legislative/regulatory trends and their impact on pricing and plan design, high risk-sharing pools, and deomographic considerations. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981 Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Attendees learn the most important advances in medical science and current research that may lead to additional breakthroughs. Potential effects of those advances on life insurance products and the life insurance industry are explored. Includes a presentation of neural net applications to enhance life-table methodologies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 1, Session 16.

Description: Panel discusses trends in large health claims, recent experience, and future expectations, as well as the impact of managed care on large individual health claims under self-insured programs and under an HMO setting. 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 identify various issues that would affect a company's decision to enter the market for insurance for the terminally ill.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on AIDS including an update on the epidemic and discussion about the actuarial implication of four case studies.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Discusses three key factors related to catastrophic health care events: • Trends in health care delivery and medical technology that are likely to impact catastrophic care costs • Methods of cost and risk control through early identification and specialized medical management • Modeling the cost of catastrophic events on health insurance programs

Description: This session is about health risk adjustments. Health care reform issues and Society of Actuaries research activities will also be discussed. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This session is about health risk adjusters and includes a discussion on risk assessment, actuarial applications, New York small-group reform, medical management applications, Rand 36, and other methods. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: This session discusses the benefits of actuarial involvement in understand. Topics include current methods [such as teleunderwriting, use of pharmacy data] and the benefit versus cost of using various underwriting tools. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 22

Description: Panelists report on the status of activities by national associations in regard to risk-based capital requirements for health insurers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.