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.

Description: This presentation from Session 87PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting is about managing long-term-care persistency risk. The panelists comment on: 1. findings from the SOA 1995 Long-Term-Care Experience Report, 2. pricing implications, and 3. steps taken to affect persistency results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This session discussed: Relative roles and interdependencies between providers and insurers - traditional and future Risks and financial incentives from the provider perspective Marketplace forces determining trends in inflation and utilization in the health care arena. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 in San Francisco

Description: This session discussion presents future needs for services and financing arrangements for aging baby boomers, scenarios of the Long-Term Care LTC situation in the year 2010, and the gap between future needs for LTC and current methods of providing it. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: This panel will review the current status of the long-term-care marketplace with respect to non-forfeiture requirements and product design issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session discusses rising health care costs and availability of coverage. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: Panelists define the various provider-centered managed-health-care entities and discuss the differences among them. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panel discussion of national, state, and provincial developments in health care policy and regulation. Presented at the 1975 annual meeting.

Description: Our three panelists represent a cross section of the health-care industry. The topics they will each discuss will include a range of broad to specific types of health-care innovation, and they will describe the process of showing value related to the innovation discussed. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss proposed changes to the NAIC model for Long Term Care Insurance designed to promote initial rate adequacy and decrease the role of rate increases in maintaining profitability.