Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting presents the risks and rewards of managed Medicaid plans from both the perspective of the managed care organization and the state.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about meeting the health insurance needs and desires of large employers through managed competition, a key component of which is measuring quality and outcome.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses possible strategies to identify and control factors causing medical inflation.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discusses issues associated with the development of HMO plans for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meetings looks at underwriting for small group health plans of at least five lives. Various proposals for improving the small group market are discussed.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about the NAIC and HIAA models, as well as state regulations proposed or adopted to regulate small group underwriting and rate guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists discuss the tools available for coping with increases in rates for managed-care health insurance, such as: improved information on specific providers [relative costs, charges, and efficiency], analysis of the value of managed-care administrative fees, The Leapfrog Group, other data-quality initiatives, and plan-design changes. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 149OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss Congressional proposals for changing Medicare and the Academy's Medicare Reform Task Force report with respect to financial soundness, competition and potential prescription drug benefits.