Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: This session discussion is about two proposals for health-care reform will be presented, one from the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association and one from the Council for Affordable Health Care. These dramatically different proposals will be compared and open for critique. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This article contains excerpts from the first three articles that were released through the strategic initiative - Commercial Health Care: What’s Next?

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss medical excess coverage which is provided to hospitals and/or physician groups to reimburse such groups for benefits in excess of a deductible. This coverage typically involves situations where providers are taking capitation.

Description: This discussion reviews the appropriate roles of group insurance, individual insurance and governmental programs in providing protection against the cost of medical care for retired persons and other aged citizens. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims using currently available software to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discusses how ratings and rating agencies affect health care insurance and related organizations. Advice is offered on maintaining a good relationship with rating services.

Description: A humorous look at the spring 2013 activities that a health care actuary working on individual or small group health care reform would be involved in.