Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about open ended managed care plans from various perspectives including structure, marketing and actuarial issues.

Description: At this presentation, the panelists address the following questions: 1. How is health insurance risk measured? 2. How and why do surplus requirements differ between health insurance and life insurance? 3. How and why do surplus requirements differ among health insurers [e.g., Commercial, Blue Cross, HMO] and among health insurance products? 3. What are some of the current techniques being used by health insurers for determining target or required surplus and for managing surplus? 4. How do the rating agencies view surplus requirements for health insurers? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about medical claims management and keeping up with changes in technology. The panelists discuss the use of artificial intelligence in claims processing, 'intelligent' coverage cards, and code gaming problems. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session discussion is about health insurance tax reserves: standard morbidity tables, impact of statutory requirements, effective issue date for choice of interest rate, deductibility of additional reserves, and the chance for one-year preliminary term on certain coverages. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session will discuss the role of actuaries under national health insurance, role of the Canadian health actuaries under that national program and how actuaries can shape the health-care environment in the U.S.. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This session dealt with Regulatory Considerations in Group Insurance. Topics included: 1. National health insurance. 2. Federal hospital cost control programs. 3. Non-discrimination legislation and regulation. 4. Multiple- employer trusts. 5. Impact of recent OASDI financing changes. 6. Changes in mandatory retirement age on group insurance.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues surrounding retirement at age 70. What redesigns of group life, disability, and health plans is necessary as a result of raising the minimum mandatory retirement age to 70? What is the cost effect of these changes? How do you handle benefit design in states with no mandatory retirement age? How should pension and profit-sharing plans be changed to conform to the new law? From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.