Description: This discussion covers the loss experience under superimposed plans compared with comprehensive plans, controls over increasing costs and the use of Relative Value Schedules, and deductible amounts and coinsurance provisions.

Description: Presenters at session 99 OF of the Maui II Spring Meeting discuss current issues involved in providing stop-loss coverage for provider-sponsored organization PSOs, managed care health plans, and self-funded groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This discussion focuses on the significant aspects of the 1958 mortality experience under group life insurance policies, the significant aspects of the morbidity experience with respect to the various forms of group sickness and accident insurance policies, and the recent experience under individual policies converted from group life insurance or group medical expense insurance plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the purpose and expectations for medical savings accounts [MSA] at the time the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted, and whether these expectations have been achieved.

Description: This discussion on pension and retirement plans looks at assumptions made concerning investment yield rates, mortality, rates of disablement and disabled life mortality. Additional discussion focusing on looking at a trend away from individual policy pension plans toward Group Annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This session discusses defined-contribution plans as a method for employers to manage costs. Panelists discuss product designs and strategies as well as the impact on the health insurance market and third party administration business. Included is a discussion on e-health insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 59

Description: This panel discussion presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis discussed competition in health care delivery from the perspective of what was happening in Minnesota, a key HMO state. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This discussion looks at the success rate companies have in the sale of long-term disability benefits, benefits provided after plan termination, appropriate experience for determination of premiums and reserves, determination of reserve liabilities for continuing claims, and experience rating.

Description: The number of uninsured people in the United States has grown to over 40 million. Many possible solutions have been considered at both the federal and state levels to help alleviate the size and growth of the uninsured population. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 73PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.