Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about risk-based capital, NAIC activities, and how Blue Cross/Blue Shield's initiatives intertwine with the model bill on RBC that the NAIC has proposed.

Description: This session is geared to give participants a keener insight into the post September 11 factors underlying health care cost trends and how others in the industry view the future of health care costs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 4

Description: In this era of rising health care costs, numerous efforts have been made to link quality and cost through multiple approaches. This is a report of a study, conducted by MPRO under contract with the SOA, in which they evaluate whether quality pays or not in an inpatient setting by carefully selecting a few hospitals in Southeast Michigan and retrospectively calculating their return on investment [ROI] in quality improvement [QI] activities within their organization.

Description: This article is about the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. This Act revises the Medicare landscape by the creation of Part C - Medicare+Choice, Medical Savings Accounts, payment reforms.

Description: In this session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting, panelists discuss the issue of the health care uninsured and underinsured. Participants discuss activity at the state level, the federal level, and the work of the American Academy of Actuaries' Work Group.

Description: This presentation from Session 85 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses recent developments in the area of capital planning, what are appropriate capital levels, and how health actuaries should be involved in it. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.