Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting present ways to measure physician performance and the issues associated with gathering the data for doing so.

Description: This essay discusses the long overdue effciencies that would improve the quality of healthcare in the United States.

Description: This article lists the top priority issues for SOA health committees for 2003 and their support for the Healthcare System in Crisis project, which is focused on giving the public an actuarial perspective on the dynamics and interrelationships of the healthcare system.

Description: This article looks at obesity in the United States and presents strategies for an Obesity Care Management Program. From Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: Feature article about the effects of obesity on life expectancy and how actuaries will be affected.

Description: Appendixes for the Evaluating ACO Efficiency: Risk Adjustment within Episodes study. The study aims to answer the question of how much of an episode’s cost and use of specific services can be attributed to the patient’s own health status, as opposed to being driven by other factors such as the care setting, patient preference, and provider practice patterns. In other words, do episode costs vary so widely because of patient characteristics, including health status, or are they related to other, nonclinical factors?

Description: This article is the third in a series from the '2011 Living To 100 Symposium.' It examines the growing concern about doctor to patient ratio, including perspectives from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on innovative health insurance plan design. Items discussed include programs that change behavior, eliminating coverage for items that are not medically necessary, and the Voluntary Cost Containment Program of the Health Insurance Association. Record of the SOA, Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: To advise the management of a company on the most prominent disruptors that are going to increase its health expenditure in the next 5 years.

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.