Description: This session discusses HMOs: do they manage health better, do provider financial incentives reduce quality, do HMOs profit from shadow pricing, and do they attract better risk. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss a variety of issues related to overinsurance of disability income [DI] insurance. There is a general introduction to the topic, followed by a more specific discussion of issues such as policy provisions, underwriting considerations, and claims management. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 72PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This 1981 session focused on health insurance coverages. Questions included: 1. What are problem areas that have given rise to recent legislative and regulatory activity? 2. What new or different sales practices are being utilized to alleviated consumerist and regulator concerns? 3. How have legislative restrictions on product design and sales practices affected pricing adequacy, morbidity experience and the long-range availability of such coverages? 4. What can actuaries do to educate the public and regulators about cost projections and premium adequacy? 5. Is it ethical to market a product with a low benefit payoff, high expense ratio? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Panel explores new disability products offered by writers of individual disability insurance and the ways in which these products connect with other types of insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Participants discuss the current issues of work site health product portfolio designs, including various supplemental health products for large & small employers and individuals. Topics include dental and various voluntary products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 27

Description: This panel discussion about loss reserves for health insurance provides an overview of the various methods of developing them, and analysis of the different reserve-development patterns for: Hospital, Surgical and Medical, Dental, Major Medical, and Comprehensive Major Medical. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss trends for the group short-term disability STD industry, as well as issues of timely relevance to group STD actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries is engaged in several projects that proactively examine the future status of the Medicare Program. This session presents the findings that have resulted from these efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This session will teach the ABCs of HMOs and PHOs. Topics include provider networks, contracting, utilization controls, integrated health care, From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panel discussion of alternative approaches to the design of reserve standards, to include those topics discussed in several recent papers and committee reports.