Description: this article provides an overview of coverage and claim trends for managed care medical excess of loss insurance and reinsurance programs. it addresses features such as deductible, maximum benefit, inside limits , comprehensive versus non- comprehensive , and claims by diagnosis for commercial , Medicare and Medicaid risk. It also reviews cost containment support programs for catastrophic claims .

Description: Full version of Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: Panelists discuss the following managed care topics: · Design issues/pros and cons e.g., self-directed health-care model · Provider reimbursement methodologies · Consumer and regulatory issues · Insurance and reinsurance pricing and underwriting issues · Catastrophic claims · Risk-based capital repercussions · Defined contribution health plans From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 61

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, May 2006, Issue No. 57.

Description: This session 62 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on provider excess reinsurance, which is an excess of loss coverage for providers assuming risk under various forms of managed care arrangements, such as HMOs, PPOs, and Medicare/Medicaid. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: A description of features designed to alter a conventional reinsurance treaty structure into one where the reinsured accepts more risk for excess claim in return for more benefits of favorable experience.

Description: Letter to the Editor by Mark Troutman from Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: The stated purpose of this article is to give several specific examples of financial reinsurance transactions and to give some ideas on how a representative of a ceding company or a professional reinsurer could make contact with others in various venues to get in the mainstream of financial reinsurance activities.