Description: This article discusses a study of the impact of the drug infliximab on Crohn's disease patients. This study had been approved in response to an SOA request for proposals for research on the health cost and utilization effects of a specific prescription drug.

Description: Discusses management principles for the successful application of the underwriting processes of selecting and classifying risks and the actuarial pricing process of establishing adequate and equitable premiums for the risks to be underwritten within group medical business. Has some nice representative data for what a book of business might look like by case size.