Description: Measurement and benchmarking of surplus levels provide health plans with valuable insights regarding their financial strength and performance. This session discusses target surplus and reserves for health plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 50

Description: This session's discussion is about maintenance of effort provisions, benefit demands of employers, unbundling of services, new funding techniques and multiple options versus adverse selection. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about open ended managed care plans from various perspectives including structure, marketing and actuarial issues.

Description: At this presentation, the panelists address the following questions: 1. How is health insurance risk measured? 2. How and why do surplus requirements differ between health insurance and life insurance? 3. How and why do surplus requirements differ among health insurers [e.g., Commercial, Blue Cross, HMO] and among health insurance products? 3. What are some of the current techniques being used by health insurers for determining target or required surplus and for managing surplus? 4. How do the rating agencies view surplus requirements for health insurers? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about medical claims management and keeping up with changes in technology. The panelists discuss the use of artificial intelligence in claims processing, 'intelligent' coverage cards, and code gaming problems. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session discussion is about health insurance tax reserves: standard morbidity tables, impact of statutory requirements, effective issue date for choice of interest rate, deductibility of additional reserves, and the chance for one-year preliminary term on certain coverages. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session will discuss the role of actuaries under national health insurance, role of the Canadian health actuaries under that national program and how actuaries can shape the health-care environment in the U.S.. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston. The topics covered included: experience rating problems, group life problems, Long Term Disability issues, Association Group, and utilization of HMOs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.