Description: This session discussion is about managed mental health, substance abuse, prescription drug, and vision benefits. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: Panelists discuss a variety of issues related to overinsurance of disability income [DI] insurance. There is a general introduction to the topic, followed by a more specific discussion of issues such as policy provisions, underwriting considerations, and claims management. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 72PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session discussion is about hospital strategies in delivering and financing care, physician reaction to current market, physician strategies in delivering and financing care, and provider reaction to managed care programs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about employer mandates, state regulations [retirement communities & HMOs, NAIC rate regulation exposure draft ], relations with regulators and relations with health care providers. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session discusses HMOs: do they manage health better, do provider financial incentives reduce quality, do HMOs profit from shadow pricing, and do they attract better risk. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This 1981 session focused on health insurance coverages. Questions included: 1. What are problem areas that have given rise to recent legislative and regulatory activity? 2. What new or different sales practices are being utilized to alleviated consumerist and regulator concerns? 3. How have legislative restrictions on product design and sales practices affected pricing adequacy, morbidity experience and the long-range availability of such coverages? 4. What can actuaries do to educate the public and regulators about cost projections and premium adequacy? 5. Is it ethical to market a product with a low benefit payoff, high expense ratio? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Participants discuss the current issues of work site health product portfolio designs, including various supplemental health products for large & small employers and individuals. Topics include dental and various voluntary products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 27

Description: This panel discussion about loss reserves for health insurance provides an overview of the various methods of developing them, and analysis of the different reserve-development patterns for: Hospital, Surgical and Medical, Dental, Major Medical, and Comprehensive Major Medical. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session will teach the ABCs of HMOs and PHOs. Topics include provider networks, contracting, utilization controls, integrated health care, From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.