Description: A proposal to reform the health care provider payment system through: a national fee schedule, shifting more reimbursements to primary care providers, better integration of hospital & physician fees, evidence based care, pay for performance, and a better provider risk sharing mechanism.

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.