Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: This 1992 discussion is about the resource-based relative value scale [RBRVS]- where it is and where it's going, and its impact on trends, Medicare supplemental coverage, indemnity plans, and health cost projections. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session discussion is about outside actuarial profession's perspective on health care cost, insurer's role in medical care management, relationships between treatment decisions, available coverage, appropriate use of underwriting and paying for uncompensated care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed credibility theory. Areas addressed included defining credibility and the complexities of measuring it with an emphasis on group medical insurance.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about heath insurance issues affecting the 25-250 life group market including marketing, rating, reinsurance, and products.

Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the future of individual comprehensive medical expense insurance including trends, state regulation, plan design, and financial experience. From Record Of The Society Of Actuaries Volume 8, Number 4

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the movement to small group health plans, group insurance underwriting, the plan design of non-traditional benefit programs such as cafeteria plans, HMO's and PPO's and new financial processes. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the issues in the individual medical insurance market - escalating costs, utilization rates and anti-select lapsation, the potential solutions and the challenges facing the actuary.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.