Description: An examination of past Flaspohler Survey data to identify drivers of direct writer satisfaction with reinsurers.

Description: This session discussion is about current claim experience,variations by block of business & product, problems in determining claim experience and effect of selection on experience in health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panelists present the positions being staked out by the political parties, the likelihood of passage of any of the proposed legislation, and the potential impacts on the health care market of the various proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 131PD.

Description: May 2016 issue of LTC News

Description: This session discussion is about regulatory developments, benefit design, funding, vesting, accrual issues, employer perspectives, and public policy implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: This session will address the increased cases of managed care in Medicaid states. This will include some indication of how utilization patterns differ for those populations versus commercial populations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 established the nationwide expansion of a Long–Term-Care Partnership program into which any state can choose to participate. This article describes that program and what it means for a person insured under a qualifying long-term-care insurance policy.

Description: This session discusses how managed care affects the cost and pricing of health care. Included is a discussion of inadequate development and use of practice standards practicing differently for patients covered by different insurers and the malpractice crisis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 59

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses managing ambulatory care [i.e. outpatient], physician visit frequency, multiple testing, defensive medicine and how physicians function in a manged care environment.