Description: This 1991 open forum discussion is about the resource-based relative value scale [RBRVS] and its impact on physician fee trends [Medicare and non-Medicare], physician specialization, utilization, Medicare supplement plans, employer plans [active and retired], HMOs, and physicians and senior citizens. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discusses Medicare Supplement Insurance, the changes created by OBRA 1990, and how the market will be impacted by changes from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the purpose and expectations for medical savings accounts [MSA] at the time the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted, and whether these expectations have been achieved.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on effective product management of life insurance. Areas addressed include definition of effective product management, internal organization required, establishment of objectives for a product line, coordination of company activities with respect to initial design, and monitoring.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session the panelists provided five different perspectives of small-group health insurance reform. Perspectives included: 1. Legislative issues perspective. 2. A small group insurance company perspective. 3. The employer perspective. 4. The reinsurance perspective. 5. The compliance perspective.

Description: The panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss individual health insurance issues including NAIC, state and federal regulatory and legislative activities, under the umbrella of health care reform.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington Annual Meeting discuss the actuarial, business, clinical, and ethical issues related to physician ownership of health plans.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses contracting to support various employee-choice and consumer-choice health plans. The panelists also discuss current issues and activity in provider contracting specific to hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient and physician services, including tiered network approaches. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses managing ambulatory care [i.e. outpatient], physician visit frequency, multiple testing, defensive medicine and how physicians function in a manged care environment.