Record of Society of Actuaries 1996, Vol. 22, No. 2 - Contents

Colorado Springs Spring Meeting–June 26–28, 1996

This issue of the Record was edited by:
Gary S. Lange (Chairperson), Gretchen A. Flatto (Lead Editor) David Jarrett, Dennis Monaghan, Craig Morrow and Robert A. Pryor.

• Session #1 GS
• Change Is Our Bread and Butter: Doing It Better Than Others Is Our Job Security
• M. James Bensen
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• Session #4 PD
• Utilization Review Issues
• Wesley S. Carver, Robert H. Dobson, Brent Lee Greenwood, Zoe M. McCarthy
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• Session #5 PD
• 1985–89 Intercompany Group Life Study
• Charles C. DeWeese, John T. Jordano, Francis E. Keenan
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• Session #6 PD
• Health Insurance and the Valuation Actuary
• Ed Butler, Jerry E. Lusk, Donald J. Martineau
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• Session #7 PD
• Managing Long–Term–Care Risks
• Barry D. Eagle, Ronald D. Hagen, Andrew M. Perkins, Margaret Hottinger
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• Session #8 L
• Analyzing Healthcare Measures/Health Employer (Effectiveness) Data Information Set
• Edward M. Mailander, Jim Meidlinger
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• Session #9 PD
• Small-Employer Health Insurance Purchasing Alliances
• Richard Figueroa, Susan A. Jackson, James T. O'Connor Harvey Sobel, Jim H. Srite
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• Session #10 TS
• Financial Economics: The Option You Can't Refuse
• David N. Becker
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• Session #11 OF
• Investments and Investors–A Disability Perspective
• Lee A. Herdle, Lois A. Van de Kopple, Richard S. Mattison, Jeffrey Ryan Schuman
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• Session #12 PD
• Minimum Funding under General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
• Bruce A. Cadenhead
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• Session #13 PD
• Consulting on Mergers and Acquisitions
• Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, James A. Kenney, Hector H. Mislavsky, Max J. Schwartz
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• Session #14 IF
• Nontraditional Plans after General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
• Norman W. Clausen, Carolyn E. Zimmerman
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• Session #16 OF
• Personal Financial Planning–What's in It for Me?
• Edward H. Colton, Bruce J. Temkin
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• Session #22 PD
• GAAP for Mutuals–Current Status
• John R. Aprill, Charles D. Friedstat, Mark M. Hopfinger, Edward L. Robbins
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• Session #25 PD
• Technology and the Small–Company Actuary
• Cary David Goggin, James F. Toole, William M. White
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• Session #27 PD
• Demonstrating Value in Health–care Innovation
• Thomas C. Foley, Audrey L. Halvorson, Stephen Kardos, Craig B. Keizur
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• Session #28 PD
• Executives Need Pensions Too!
• William B. Fornia, Stephen Kinsky
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• Session #29 OF
• Hot Topics–Health Related
• John M. Bertko, Burton D. Jay, Herbert A. Fritch, John F. Fritz, Ronald M. Wolf
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• Session #31 TS
• Financial Measurement of Transplants
• Richard H. Hauboldt, Del Ohrt, Harry L. Sutton, Jr.
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• Session #32 TS
• Medicare Risk Contracts
• Kenneth E. Leinbach, Frank Kopenski, Jr.
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• Session #33 IF
• Living and Working with Voluntary Compliance Resolution (VCR)/ Closing Agreement Program (CAP)/Compliance Audits
• Rhonda L. Davis, Karen Field
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• Session #34 IF
• General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) Funding–Managing Contribution Volatility
• Bruce C. Cable, Heidi R. Dexter
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• Session #41 PD
• Completing the 1995 Schedule B
• David R. Jarrett, Neil A. Parmenter
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• Session #43 PD
• Hot Products–Individual Disability Insurance
• Charles N. Beiter, Robert G. Meilander, Bruce A. Richards, David E. Scarlett
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• Session #44 PD
• Health Insurance Checkup in Latin America
• Edmund Santiago, Ines Torres, Rafael Trava
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• Session #45 PD
• Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities
• Frederic W. Corwin, Jr., J. Peter Duran, S. Michael McLaughlin, Robert C. Wilkins
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• Session #46 PD
• Medicare/Medicaid Risk Contracting–Profitability
• Jon R. Gabel, John K. Heins, William J. Klunk, John K. Ninomiya, Steven J. Sherman
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• Session #48 PD
• Pricing and Underwriting Stop–Loss Insurance
• Jack L. LaMar, David E. Olsho, David Wilson
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• Session #51 OF
• Research and the Pension Actuary
• Christopher M. Bone, Lindsay J. Malkiewich
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• Session #62 PD
• Pension Surplus Management
• Douglas Love, John M. Mulvey, John C. Sweeney, A. Eric Thorlacius
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• Session #66 PD
• Current Events in Financial Reporting
• Donna R. Claire, L. Andrew Gennarelli, James D. Wallace
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• Session #67 PD
• Claim Management for Disability
• Pamela Mormino, David A. Nixa, Michael L. Rasmussen
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• Session #70 PD
• Profiling and Managing Physician Performance
• Erick M. Davis
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• Session #71 PD
• Conversion of Health Organizations from Non–for–Profit to For–Profit
• Robert H. Dobson, Jay Gerzog, Harry L. Sutton, Jr., Andrew B. Wang
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• Session #72 D
• Back to the Future with Medicare: What Lies Ahead?
• Joseph Antos, Ronald E. Bachman, Richard S. Foster, Roland E. King, Robert G. Lynch
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• Session #73 L
• Section 403(b) and 457 Plans
• Paul Carlevato, Peter A. Gold
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• Session #81 PD
• The Use of Small–Employer Health Reinsurance Programs
• John Dante, Lisa M. Geraci, Karl Ideman, James T. O'Connor
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• Session #82 PD
• The State of Individual Disability Income (DI) Reinsurance
• Robert W. Beal, Thomas S. Bell, John M. Lenser, Charles M. Waldron
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• Session #83 PD
• Risk-Based Capital (RBC) Ratios
• Norman E. Hill
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• Session #84 PD
• Network Development Issues
• Edward C. Cymerys, Pennell W. Hamilton, Joseph L. Wilson, Pamela S. Woodley
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• Session #85 PD
• Medical Cost Offset and Behavioral Health Care
• Stephen P. Melek
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• Session #86 PD
• Disease Management: Solution or Fiction
• Ellen R. Cole, Robert Paglia, Bruce S. Pyenson
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• Session #87 PD
• Managing Long-Term-Care Persistency Risk
• Gary L. Corliss, Patricia J. Fay, Peggy L. Hauser
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• Session #88 PD
• Nonfunding Rules on General Agreement of Tariff & Trade (GATT): Reporting and Disclosure
• Jennifer Joy Cummings, Paul T. Shultz III
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• Session #89 PD
• Late-Breaking Developments
• Richard G. Schreitmueller, Mark Wintner
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• Session #90 PD
• Hot Product Issues–Long–Term Disability and Short-Term Disability (STD)
• Thomas R. Corcoran, Laurie Jean Fede, William P. MacLafferty, Pamela J. Saunders
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• Session #107 PD
• Trends in Behavioral Healthcare–Benefits Versus Costs
• Stephen P. Melek
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• Session #108 PD
• Pricing by Product Line
• James E. Drennan, John D. Stiefel III
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• Session #111 OF
• Education and Examination Redesign
• Jeffrey G. Allen, Robert L. Brown
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• Session #112 D
• Different Views on Funding Adequacy
• Christopher M. Bone, Richard Daskais, Malcolm P. Hamilton, Stephen H. Lee, Marilyn Miller Oliver, William J. Sohn
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• Session #114 TS
• Measuring and Analyzing Volatility Risk in Disability Income
• Richard M. Rasiej, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Darryl G. Wagner
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• Session #124 PD
• Reinsurance in the Evolving U.S. Medical Market
• Bruce A. Carlson, Michael A. Kemp, Walter C. Marsh, David Wilson
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• Session #126 PD
• State Variations and Their Impacts on Valuation
• Lauren M. Bloom, Larry M. Gorski, Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao
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• Session #128 PD
• Shifting Focus: Financial Management to Patient Management
• Joyce Li, David L. Terry, Jr., Philip C. Turner, Randall S. Vollertsen
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• Session #129 OF
• Risk and Capital Management of Disability
• Michael D. Lachance, Stephen M. Maher
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• Session #130 IF
• Setting the Standards–The Actuarial Standards Board and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries
• Edward E. Burrows, Heidi R. Dexter
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• Session #134 TS
• Disability Insurance (DI) Reserving: Tips and Techniques
• Paul D. Hitchcox, Timothy W. Knott
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• Session #264 PD
• Plan Qualification/Registration Issues for Multinational Sponsors
• Gregory T. Glashan, Ethan E. Kra, Michael S. Sirkin
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• *Current Pension Legislation Proposals: Status and Prospects
• Paul T. Shultz III, Mark S. Swotinsky
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• *Forecasting Interest Rates and Fixed-Income Returns
• Michael F. Davlin, Mark S. Tenney
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• *Investment Performance Measurement: Determination and Application of Investment Style
• Robert A. Brown, Jim Greene, R. Steve Hardy, Michael Kantor
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• *Lump Sums–The Price Just Dropped!
• Jeffrey Norman Kurz, Amy C. Viener
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• *Microsoft Windows 95: Revolutionary or Evolutionary?
• Patrick A. Basso, Michael F. Davlin, Steven Hambruch
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• *Paying Benefits across National Boundaries
• Patricia Hasse, Robert M. Katz
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• *Solvency Standards for Health Organizations
• Grant McLaughlin, Maureen Mudron, William C. Weller
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• *Solving the ZDROTIC Equation
• Ann M. Overbeck, Donald J. Segal
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• *Using Data to Improve Utilization Results
• Michael Barr, Christina Heiner
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• *Using Derivative Securities
• Richard M. Rasiej

*The following sessions from the Colorado Springs Meeting, June 26–28, 1996 will not be available on the Society's web site and will not be available for release to the public. Record sessions must meet certain standards before they can be released to the membership. The recorded version of these sessions failed to meet these standards for a variety of reasons.