Description: Panelists discuss current issues and trends impacting health plan contracting with providers. Hospital and physician contracting is discussed from both a payer's and provider's persepctive. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 30

Description: This session summarizes recent trends in behavioral health parity, pros and cons of parity, the impact of mandated benefits on near-term medical costs and methods to effectively manage mental health utilization. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 81

Description: Panelists discuss their research study into actuarial issues stemming from care and disease management programs. Topics include programs, interventions, and measuring outcomes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 31

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the individual health insurance experience review and pricing.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the developments in the group insurance market in the 1980s including designing benefit plans with the employee as the focus, the cost to the corporate employer, and the group insurance underwriter's outlook.

Description: This 1981 session focused on cost containment programs for health care in Canada and the US. Topics included: 1. Possible changes - improved plan design 2. Ways to stimulate change - market forces vs. regulation 3. Untapped cost control-health education for employees - health lifestyles & disease prevention 4. Information sources From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the purpose, rationale and conclusions of the Committee for Accident and Health Valuation Principles. Discussion also covers the comments received and any modifications to their original draft report.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: Experts discuss new strategies related to provider contracting and network management. Topics include various reimbursement approaches and risk-sharing arrangements, unique risk arrangements for certain provider specialties, unique risk managements for specific diseases, and the role of care management/care coordinators. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 59PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4