Description: In this session, an employer representative and broker will discuss their views on the current health care marketplace and cost containment including utilization review, self-funded plans and ASOs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis discussed competition in health care delivery from the perspective of what was happening in Minnesota, a key HMO state. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This session will discuss the continuing evolution of the managed health care process. Topics include precertification, utilization review, retrospective review, case management, appropriateness review, benchmarking, recredentialing, provider contracting, and integrated medical systems. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This article discusses the positive aspects of E-prescribing, a transaction in which a physician transmits a prescription directly to a pharmacy through an electronic device. Issue No. 60

Description: This article outlines what the author learned from the Sixth Annual Quality Colloquium at Harvard. From Health Watch, January 2008, Issue No. 57.

Description: In this presentation, Richard D. Lamm, former Governor of Colorado and currently Director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver, talks about the increasing costs of health care and why the miracles of American medicine have simply outpaced our ability to pay. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: The panel examines the forces underlying health plans and health carriers profit performance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 39

Description: This session making health care more affordable through health care reform, changes to tax policy, and managed care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: Ian Duncan argues that there is no crisis in American health care.

Description: The medical and behavioral health care provider communities have long debated whether high-quality behavioral health care reduces medical costs. This presentation from Session 85PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting reviews past studies relating to medical cost offsets and explores the potential magnitude of such design and delivery of medical and behavioral health care programs to encourage potential health care cost savings and to increase wellness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.