Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the financial implications of managed care for health insurance profitability. Factors that affect profitability for managed care companies and health insurance companies are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss potential effects on the health insurance system and implications of future developments in genetic technology. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 53.

Description: Presentation at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session will discuss trends in medical technology as they affect health care benefits programs, including: life extension, organ transplants, high-cost procedures, and plan design.

Description: This 1978 session focused on regulatory considerations in Group Health Insurance focused on the following questions: 1. What is the impact of National Health Insurance and Federal Hospital Cost Control? 2. What is the impact of non-discrimination legislation and regulation? 3. What is the impact of recent OASDI financing changes and changes in mandatory retirement age? 4. What is the future of multi-employer trusts and self-insurance?

Description: This panel will discuss the current status of NAIC activities with respect to risk-based capital RBC. The potential impact on financial reporting with respect to health products, specifically, indemnity, HMO, disability, and nontraditional products will also be discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol.21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the practical application of risk analysis technique In Health Insurance. This includes using company claim information and multinomial distributions for predictive purposes and using this information to price health insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and reserving methods.

Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and surplus levels.

Description: This 1980 session is about effect of government actions and consumerism on product design and pricing. Areas addressed: 1. What have been the most important regulatory and consumerist actions in the past decade as related to products, their marketing and the overall operation of a life insurance company? 2. What will be the most important actions in these arenas in the next decade? 3. What specific impact have these regulatory and consumer actions had on companies in the past decade and will they have in the coming decade? 4. What true value has accrued to consumers and the public because of these actions, and what impact will they have in the next decade? 5. Is there an acceptable relationship between the value of these benefits and the cost to the companies of providing them?

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of wellness programs on medical plan experience/non-medical plan experience, health status as a pricing variable, likely future developments.