Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present various physician incentive programs, including withholds, bonuses, capitation, and other risk-sharing concepts. Implications and effectiveness of each type of program and appropriate situations for applying each program are discussed.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1986 Chicago Annual Meeting discusses pros, cons and issues for both indemnity Medicare Supplement policies and the recent Health Maintenance Organization Medicare Risk Contracts.

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: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on federal issues that impact health insurance. Topics discussed included: -The Federal Government's role in health care financing - Prospective reimbursement of hospitals - Tax treatment of individuals medical expenses - Primacy of group health insurance for workers over 65 - Budgetary pressure on Medicare/Medicaid - Whatever became of National Health Insurance [NHI]? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 8, No. 4.

Description: This session discussion is about what factors affect the small employer's choice of programs, how may the small employer capitalize on recent developments in managed health care, what problems do insurance companies have in marketing and communicating their plans to small employers, are partially self-insured benefits a threat or an opportunity for carriers in this market. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and reserving methods.

Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and surplus levels.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington Annual Meeting discuss the actuarial, business, clinical, and ethical issues related to physician ownership of health plans.

Description: On January 1, 1999, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners adopted a new model regulation addressing risk-based capital for managed care organizations. This presentation from Session 16OF of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting discusses the features of this regulation and what has been learned in the months since its adoption. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session addressed the following regarding benefit plan design to control claim costs: What has been tried? What works? and What else can be tried?