Description: The measure of a health-care provider's quality and efficiency can be used to reward or penalize the provider through reimbursement strategies and plan designs. Panelists discuss the measures that are becoming available. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 24PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: Discussion topics include analysis of actual-to-expected loss experience, tracking of pricing adequacy and competitiveness, leading indicators of financial results, profitability measurement and source of earnings analysis and similarities/differences in individual and group financial management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 36

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 session of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses health liabilities and reserves.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on long-term projections of health insurance, the uses of the projections, the type of model to use and model considerations for the projections.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses analyzing and projecting financial risk in group health plans.