Description: This panel discussion session focuses on health care alternatives with the objective to improve care and reduce costs. Includes discussion on national programs, managed care

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the impact point-of-service [POS] plans have had on both HMOs and on indemnity carriers. Different types of POS plans and the problems presented by primary care gatekeepers are discussed.

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: Panelists discuss the various managed-care alternatives as well as ways to evaluate their effectiveness. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This session will address the increased cases of managed care in Medicaid states. This will include some indication of how utilization patterns differ for those populations versus commercial populations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session talks about the Long-Term Care Insurance Valuation Task Force report.

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 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 discussion at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on the polictical landscape with respect to health care issues including Medicare, prescription drug coverage, the concept of a patient's 'bill of rights', and other health care reform ideas.

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.