Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: Medical stop-loss reinsurance continues to play a vital role in containing employers’ health care costs. Managing general underwriters [MGUs], who originally handled these programs, have lost market share to large direct writers. This article discusses how health care reform and highly disciplined underwriting tools offer growth opportunities to MGUs.

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: Gathering information and assess risks of Managed Care Networks. Looking at cost and service areas. Issue No. 44.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss medical excess coverage which is provided to hospitals and/or physician groups to reimburse such groups for benefits in excess of a deductible. This coverage typically involves situations where providers are taking capitation.

Description: The discussion will review major elements of the reinsurance market as health care reform replaces traditional markets. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: At this presentation from Session 81PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists examine current issues involving small-employer health reinsurance programs from viewpoints of both the direct writer and the reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .

Description: This session 62 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on provider excess reinsurance, which is an excess of loss coverage for providers assuming risk under various forms of managed care arrangements, such as HMOs, PPOs, and Medicare/Medicaid. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Feature article focuses on the regulators who determine risk-based capital or RBC standards applicable to health plans.