Description: Panelists discuss the following managed care topics: · Design issues/pros and cons e.g., self-directed health-care model · Provider reimbursement methodologies · Consumer and regulatory issues · Insurance and reinsurance pricing and underwriting issues · Catastrophic claims · Risk-based capital repercussions · Defined contribution health plans From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 61

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: Discussion of merger and acquisitions issues pertaining to health insurance business. Includes: 1. Due diligence 2. Valuation of business 3. Administrative problems to resolve.

Description: Over the years I have come to believe that the nature vs nurture debate is fundamentally flawed, in that it tends to exclude an increasingly important third influence: culture.

Description: In 2014, the SOA Product Development and Reinsurance Sections, along with the Committee for Life Insurance research engaged Reinsurance Group of America to undertake a research project on term conversion experience.

Description: Medical Insurance in Latin America: Lessons Learned. Issue No. 42.

Description: Gathering information and assess risks of Managed Care Networks. Looking at cost and service areas. Issue No. 44.

Description: Specific and aggregate stop loss insurance reinsurance is a product that has unique characteristics. The product is a special type of policy that covers employers or their self-funded employee benefit plans for larger health claims. The product has some unique reserving challenges for the health/reinsurance actuary.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss ways in which the group long term disability [LTD] reinsurance market has emerged and the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of reinsurance that are available.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discuss the recent history , the current environment and issues, and the future trends of medical reinsurance, including stop-loss and special risk insurance.