Description: Actuaries are increasingly being called upon to advise management about the value of medical management programs and interventions. This session discusses disease management outcome measurements and the cost vs value issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 111

Description: Panelists discuss the current implications of the Medicare Modernization Act on employer provided and employer sponsored health plans. Topics include Part D, MAPDs [Medicare Advantage with Part D], attestations, plan options, federal subsidies and current experience. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 108

Description: This session covers current topics of interest to self-funded health benefit programs. Topics include carve-out of pharmacy, participation in employer coalitions for pooling of risk and negotiating favorable terms with providers and administrators, stop loss insurance market developments and transparency. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 51

Description: This panel discussion was from one of the 1982 spring meetings of the Society of Actuaries. The discussion concerned accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits. The panel considered the following issues: 1. Disclosure 2. Multi-Employer Plans 3. Plans Funded With Insurance Contracts 4. Plans Likely to be Terminated 5. Treatment of Other Post-Retirement Benefits

Description: This is a highly interactive role-playing session detailing the actual product development process for a hypothetical health care product. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 19

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, led a discussion related to employer's accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits. Topics included: 1. Present accounting rules and background in connection with pension plans 2. The purposes for pension accounting rules in general 3. The nature of pension arrangements and the implication of their character for: a. Corporate liabilities and net worth h. Periodic charges to corporate income on account of pensions 4. Effect of actuarial gains and losses and the relationship of non-penslon post-retirement benefits to pensions, from an accounting viewpoint

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: This session reviewed the distinctions and blurring of those distinctions between group and individual life insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided

Description: Why is it that two competent actuaries making reasonable assumptions can arrive at very different conclusions when evaluating the impact of proposed health care reforms? Are the answers really as different as they appear to be on the surface? This presentation from Session 137IF of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting outlines and highlights some of the key actuarial issues that arise in the course of these analyses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005 Panelists discussed some of the research behind understanding decision-making and how this type of research can be used to enhance the modeling of consumer choice. Discussion of the field of behavioral economics and its potential application in improving assumptions for modeling health care purchasing.