Description: Analysis of the impact of disease progression and treatment on life expectancy provides perspective on the long term costs to the health care system of chronic medical conditions.

Description: NewsDirect article that discusses the benefits of automating the underwriting process. Underwriting speed, the east of case submission and sales support stand out as the most important factors.

Description: This teaching session explores how variability in charges and costs can be measured so direct comparisons between institutions can be developed and how information can be used to develop reasonable reimbursement levels. Topics include creating & using outpatient hospital fee schedules, using relative value fee schedules to benchmark costs to aid in medical management and hospital tiering. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 48

Description: This session presents a summary of actuarial and potential uses of stochastic modeling for health actuaries. Three case studies are presented: rating health plan reimbursement provisions, developing claim liabilities, and defining appropriate reinsurance levels. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 18

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at how a managed care plan can know whether it is doing a good job on utilization review, if there is room for further reduction in utilization, and how a plan should prevent under-utilization.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about : Design features of business coverage compared to personal coverage, New developments in income replacements, residual, own occupation and cost of living benefits, Effects of recent experience on design, Outlook for the future.

Description: A multiway typology of measures of aging, longevity and superlongevity is presented, with measures classified as measures of aging and longevity, direct and indirect measures of aging and longevity, and measures based on population data, death statistics and life table functions.

Description: Medicare Advantage Organizations must consider influences both internal and external to the adjudication process as they review and use data for bid preparation

Description: This piece is a discussion of Mel Stein's paper entitled, 'A New Approach to the Calculation of Active Life Disability Reserves.'

Description: Typical features of Critical Illness policies, and discussion of pricing, reserving, claims experience and regulations.