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 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: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on Standards of Practice SOP topics that are breaking at the time of the meeting including ASP 4 - pension standards, health standards, and the sales illustration standard. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Discussion of insolvency provision added to reinsurance agreements to insure the continuation of benefits during HMO insolvency, Issue No. 39.

Description: This session 110IF of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting updates the changes in the health insurance industry due to recent mergers, acquisitions, and demutualizations. What has the impact of this consolidation been on health products? What is the outlook for continued future consolidations in the health insurance industry? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No 1.

Description: This paper is from the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. It was presented at the 1956 Spring Meetings of the Society of Actuaries for discussion. The author summarizes the results of a study looking at the correlation between family history and mortality of insured lives, updating a previous study covering exposure from 1911 to 1931, to cover experience between 1931 and 1955.

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 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 session disscusses thel outlook of the Medicare program, current and longer-term reform proposals, and Medicare prescription drug proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 66

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.