Description: This panel discussion about loss reserves for health insurance provides an overview of the various methods of developing them, and analysis of the different reserve-development patterns for: Hospital, Surgical and Medical, Dental, Major Medical, and Comprehensive Major Medical. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1975, Volume 9, No. 10, discusses medical expense insurance. This article addresses the following questions: Why have group claim frequency rates remained high? What can be expected for the future? What management actions are appropriate? This presentation is one actuary's attempt to answer these questions.

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries is engaged in several projects that proactively examine the future status of the Medicare Program. This session presents the findings that have resulted from these efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This session will teach the ABCs of HMOs and PHOs. Topics include provider networks, contracting, utilization controls, integrated health care, From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panel discussion about the business, regulatory, and consumer issues relating to loss ratios for Accident & Health Insurance. From the 1980 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting in Minneapolis, as published in the 1980 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss the various types of risks in health insurance and health-care delivery, and various types of risk-absorption mechanisms for sharing these risks among providers, insurers, employers, and employees. In addition, they address the management of the risk from a corporate perspective, which will include bottom-line earnings and marketing goals and objectives. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: This article explores the changing risk profile between the transitional Affordable Care Act (ACA) period (2014-2016) and under the final ACA period (beyond 2017) for the individual market. Actuaries are in a unique position to help facilitate the change from the current ACA period to the final period when health plans will have to take on substantially more risk.

Description: Open meeting of the Society's Health Benefit Systems Practice Advancement Committee and Health Section Council, as well as the American Academy of Actuaries' Health Practice Council. The three committees review ongoing projects in the Health Practice area. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss pricing issues regarding supplemental products, which for this purpose, are defined as cancer, specified disease, student accident, and other special risk accident and health coverages. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: A discussion of funding arrangements that can reduce the costs of providing medical coverage through lower reserves or state tax savings, instead of through cutting benefits.