Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: The panel examines the forces underlying health plans and health carriers profit performance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 39

Description: Panelists discuss recent developments that may impact health care costs over the next few years, such as: · Trends in research and treatment for various diseases · Advances in diagnoses, therapies, and medications · Various clinical trials From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 73

Description: This session discussion is about methods of managing care, what methods have been most effective, experience to date under managed care products, are savings being generated, employer acceptance of managed care products, provider acceptance of managed care products, what will future managed care programs look like. Includes a discussion on utilization review and management, From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS for health actuaries, contract limits, underwriting practices, regulations on underwriting, claim reserving, recent experience and future outlook. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

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: This session discussion is about health care trends including current experience, measurement problems, effect of selection, and variation by size of group. Also discussed is the new Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule, anticipated cost shifting, and AIDS. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1990 Vol. 16, No. 4A.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about health care trend including current experience, measurement techniques and problems, uses of trend projections, and other considerations such as the impact of selection and the impact of initial and renewal underwriting practices. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists debate on who should pay for medical care for the uninsured, and how it should be financed. The debaters represent advocates of private, voluntary, and cooperative private state solutions and state or government intervention to finance health care for the uninsured. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: Panelists discuss the ongoing influence and long-term implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on the health insurance market in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.