Description: The Health Section's strategic initiative entitled Commercial Health Care: What’s Next? focuses on health care reform. This article contains a summary

Description: Explanation of Medicare Advantage STAR rating program as it relates to payment rates for MA bids. Also describes important features of the program from an actuarial perspective, how the components of the STAR rating are calculated and implications and considerations for actuaries.

Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: A look at recent inflation, its impact on society, how it differs from other instances of inflation throughout history, and the effectiveness of various measures to curb inflation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: Panel discussion on how insurers can deal with the proliferation of laws, court decisions and regulations, and on the outlook for future developments in health insurance regulatory environment.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the regulatory environment for banking and insurance, the crossover opportunities and the various types of sales distribution alternatives. Consideration also will be given to the obstacles in such a relationship, including corporate culture and the various risks involved for both the bank and the insurance company.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act 'TEFRA', the Deficit Reduction Act 'DEFRA', and any new enacted or proposed revisions in the Internal Revenue Code on insurance company taxes, employee benefits and insurance products.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the expenses in direct-response marketing, advertising compliance, risk selection techniques - unfair discrimination, agent supported regulation, use of telephone solicitors and direct response product design.

Description: In the course of consulting engagements, actuaries almost always find they need one or more of the following resources: -Healthcare data, which may be at the individual patient level or on a particular population. -Health services research studies which describe, summarize, try to alter, or predict patients’ use of health resources. -Health policy information, which describe public or private actions which affect the access, cost and quality of medical care. This document describes the ever-changing resources and specifies where they may be obtained.