Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides a description of several state purchasing alliances and their experience to date.

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: Actuaries should understand the economic considerations involved in the formulary drug decision-making process, and the presence of actuarial input in the process could improve it, especially by tying it to overall decision making for the health plan. From Prescription Drugs Monograph, M-HB04-1.

Description: Why health care inflation exceeds the Consumer Price Index CPI due to tax implications. Issue No. 37.

Description: A rethinking of current provider reimbursement, focusing on incentives instead of simply cutting fees. The recommended 2-pronged approach would feature integrated provider organizations as well as evidence-based decision making organized around episodes of care.

Description: The Health Section Council Chairperson looks back at a historic year for the health care industry, and what it means for health actuaries.

Description: An analysis of health insurance cost and benefit trends using January 1, 2011 data from state employee medical plan renewals.

Description: A suggestion to review and reassess LTC pricing of the last three decades, in light of dangerously inadequate ratesetting in the early years, and the NAIC's introduction of a model rate stability law.

Description: This article gives an overview of retiree health aging curves. This overview is based on the author's paper entitled Aging Curves for Health Care Costs in Retirement which was published in the July, 2005 issue of the North American Actuarial Journal NAAJ. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.