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: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discuss Health Maintenance Organizaions [HMOs] including their hisotry, the marketplace, physician structures and relationships with HMOs, cost control issues and the future of HMOs.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the results of risk adjuster research in health care assessment and discusses the potential use of risk adjusters in health care reform efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

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: 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.

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: The panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss individual health insurance issues including NAIC, state and federal regulatory and legislative activities, under the umbrella of health care reform.