Description: This editorial gives an overview of articles in this edition of The Actuary including actuarial exams and health care management issues.

Description: This presentation from Session 71PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting discusses demutalization, mergers of health maintenance organizations [HMOs], and conversion from nonprofit to for-profit. It also addresses the question: How does an actuary value HMOs? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Discusses professional statutory valuation standards, provides an update on the proposal of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF], and discusses minimum state requirements and federal income tax deductibility for reserves. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses cash management, managing the bank account, lockboxes, the interface between the collection and investment departments and cash forecasting techniques. It also covers cash flow patterns of terms insurance and cash flow considerations of group products including HMO's. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session will cover the definition of a risk-taking health entity, the kinds of risk and ways to measure it. Included is an update from the Risk-based Capital Task Force. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: This article discusses the effects of economic cycles on the health insurance business.

Description: This is a transcript of a 1982 meeting of the Health Section. Includes presentation and discussion of three papers: a. Cumulative Anti-selection Theory by William F. Bluhm b. Regulatory Monitoring of Individual Health Insurance Policy Experience by John B. Cummings c. Medical Care and Services in Canada by Frank G. Reynolds From Record Vol. 8, No. 4

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at how a managed care plan can know whether it is doing a good job on utilization review, if there is room for further reduction in utilization, and how a plan should prevent under-utilization.

Description: This article discusses the role that actuaries can play in health care mergers and acquisitions.

Description: This editorial explores unintended consequences in health benefits due to movement of Part A and Part B.