Description: Panelists discuss the current trend environment and estimating future trend. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 29, No. 2, Session 52

Description: Measurement and benchmarking of surplus levels provide health plans with valuable insights regarding their financial strength and performance. This session discusses target surplus and reserves for health plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 50

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. In this discussion, representatives from DI companies discuss their philosophies, new products, acceptance in the marketplace and future plans.

Description: Many executives are talking about predictive analytics uses in health insurance.

Description: A discussion of insurance claims processing and payment systems, and how to achieve the minimum possible number of errors.

Description: A discussion of an alternative valuation methodology which addresses many of the shortcomings of the current valuation system for U.S. life and health insurers one of which is the proliferation of undesirable variations in state requirements. Issue No. 37

Description: This article reviews the cost of behavioral health care and looks at how the involvement of Primary Care Physicians leads to a less efficient and effective treatment and is an increasing cost many plans have yet to address. From Health Section Newsletter, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This article looks at pharmacy benefit management and the use of data, reviews standard pharmacoeconomic analysis methods, and discusses points for formulary decision making and what is known about the process. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: SOA’s Pension and Health Sections recently released a new resource model for projecting health care trends through the year 2099.

Description: This session discussion is about health insurance tax reserves: standard morbidity tables, impact of statutory requirements, effective issue date for choice of interest rate, deductibility of additional reserves, and the chance for one-year preliminary term on certain coverages. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.