Description: This session discussion is about a review of experience under PPOs, measuring the success of PPOs, PPOs affect on employer health care expenditures, employee utilization of PPOs, the future of PPOs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting offer several approaches to creative provider reimbursement where a single capitation and fee schedule was not the best solution.

Description: Discusses what the prevalent form of health-care financing will be in the future: Health Maintenance Organizations [HMOs], Preferred Provider Organizations [PPOs], Managed Care fee-for-service insurance contracts [Managed Care], and Triple-Option products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on national health insurance in Great Britain and Canada. Discussion items include plan features and costs, impact on providers from health care provided outside the national plan, inclusion of private health insurance and prepayment systems. Vol. 5 No. 4

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: Panelists discuss the contractual relationships between health-care providers and health-care insurers [payers], and how they can be improved. Discussed are managed care, HMO, and PPO types of negotiated contracts in the private arena. Recent trends in types of provider arrangements, and expectations for the future, are also discussed. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 97PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session is about purchasing group health, distinctions between health alliances and health insurance purchasing cooperatives, and role in administration's proposal. It also covers proposed health care reform. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting presents the risks and rewards of managed Medicaid plans from both the perspective of the managed care organization and the state.