Description: This session discussion is about the effect of changes in medical practices and technology, effect of cost shifting, measurement and analysis and employers' perspective. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session will explore the various contracting techniques that CMS, providers, and employers are using to achieve their strategic objectives across both the Commercial and Medicare markets.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussion is about new dimensions of pricing and risk selection for direct-response insurance products. Topics discussed: 1. Multiple dimensional set of assumptions relating response rates. 2. Expected claims. 3. Projected persistency. 4. Customer buying propensities.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about elements of long-term care - provider, patients, financing - problems that must be overcome to insure long-term care, managed care solution, practical considerations in offering long-term care policy.

Description: This is a 1992 panel discussion about health care reform. Topics discussed include the political environment on health care reform, how and why this environment has changed, the policy options for health care reform, how the political parties view these options, and the prospects for reform in the reasonably near future. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers problems and considerations for the valuation actuary with long term care insurance, NAIC risk based capital RBC requirements and their impact on LTC, the growth of LTC, cash flow testing, GAAP analysis of LTC and LTC claim reserve experiences.

Description: This session about long-term-care will cover the current status of reinsurance for this marketplace in three ways: traditional accident and health, turnkey programs and assumptive reinsurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session discussion is about overview of current trend experience, techniques of applying trends in rating, risk aspects of different trending methods, and implications of trend cycles for surplus requirements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This session is about President Clinton's health care reform proposal. Topics discussed include: federal debate & the actuarial role, cost estimates, and actuarial issues contained in the proposal. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.