Description: Panelists provide an update on recent events in consumer-driven health care, including the regulatory environment, results versus expectations and the implications for the overall group health marketplace. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 62

Description: Our panelists discuss mechanisms to measure affordability, reducing costs through product design and other responses by plans, employers & providers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 82

Description: This session covers current topics of interest to self-funded health benefit programs. Topics include carve-out of pharmacy, participation in employer coalitions for pooling of risk and negotiating favorable terms with providers and administrators, stop loss insurance market developments and transparency. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 51

Description: The medical and behavioral health care provider communities have long debated whether high-quality behavioral health care reduces medical costs. This presentation from Session 85PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting reviews past studies relating to medical cost offsets and explores the potential magnitude of such design and delivery of medical and behavioral health care programs to encourage potential health care cost savings and to increase wellness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This session presents information sources used in tracking health technologies, the value of health technology assessments and clinical data typically available. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 4

Description: This session discussion is about controls on utilization, eligibility control, pricing considerations, benefit design, mail order programs and physician dispensing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about high cost claimants in medical benefit plans and how to control costs and anti-selection. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.