Description: Panel discusses a variety of current issues in the senior health-care marketplace, including the effects of current, pending, and proposed Medicare changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present various physician incentive programs, including withholds, bonuses, capitation, and other risk-sharing concepts. Implications and effectiveness of each type of program and appropriate situations for applying each program are discussed.

Description: Panelists lead participants in a discussion of recent experiences and current issues regarding the valuation of medical and dental insurance and managed care products. Topics include ASOP 22 [asset adequacy analysis for statements of actuarial opinion] and ASOP 41 [communication]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 102

Description: Panel discussion from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Houston on the topic of the financial services industry and its response to inflation and deregulation. Topics included: 1. Industry reconfiguration, relative competitiveness of various segments of the industry. 2. New products and technological advance 3. Impacts on the life insurance industry. a. Bank marketing of insurance products b. Investment and bank products marketed by insurers

Description: This is a panel discussion session on group long-term disability insurance. The panel examines trends in termination & frequency rates, underwriting & product costs in anticipation of a recession, the impact of human rights on benefit design, anti-selection on pregnancy benefits and benefit design with regards to age discrimination. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.