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  • Underwriting Implications of Wellness Programs
    make 19 visits anntmlly to an alternative health care practitioner. People don't see their regular physicians ... on massage therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic care. This is something that we have to focus in on.

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Marta Kushnir, Henry C George, Gary Y Lee
    • Date: Apr 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Health Actuaries and the Internet
    discussion areas regarding health insurance and managed care topics; current news services; and the home page ... 21 years of experience in health policy, health care information management and analysis, health data ...

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    • Authors: Jeffrey Allen, Mark Epstein, James R Weiss
    • Date: May 1997
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Technology & Applications
  • Flexible Benefits - Design From A Plan Sponsor's Viewpoint
    information, but much of it is theoretical. My primary goal is to bring you up to date on the current ... This will have a very positive effect on health care cost containment, since research has now confirmed ...

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    • Authors: Carol L Beatty, Michael Demner, Robert McKay, Cynthia R Riley
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Life Insurance; Pensions & Retirement>Corporate plans
  • Employee Benefit Design for Small Groups
    FSA, present their comments first. Mr. Wain will direct his discussion to pen- sion plans for small employers ... ably be expected to select superior risks. The primary emphasis, then, should be directed toward not underwriting ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Alan M Thaler, Christopher H Wain
    • Date: Oct 1978
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Life Insurance>Group plans - Life Insurance; Pensions & Retirement>Private sector plans
  • Unisex - An Update
    characteristics, a similar expectation of loss. What is the primary actuarial reason for opposition? In voluntary insurance ... tell the other person why they, not you, should care. You have to identify the "right stuff". Instead ...

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    • Authors: Daphne D Bartlett, Thomas P Bleakney, Michael F Davlin, Barbara Lautzenheiser, Anthony Spano
    • Date: May 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities; Health & Disability; Life Insurance; Pensions & Retirement
  • Health Section Session - Current Topics
    percent of all of its reserves. It talks about "direct" because for reinsurance, the assuming company ... pro-competition school of thought. Several health care economists have argued that Americans have too much ...

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    • Authors: Spencer Koppel, Michael J Nohl, Francis T O'Grady, Carl F Ricciardelli, Sheldon Summers, Peter Thexton, Kurt K Von Schilling
    • Date: Apr 1985
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Predictive Modeling - Current Practices and Future Applications
    actuaries. Dick was M&R chief medical officer for the care guidelines division, and he was also a consultant ... groupers or risk adjustors, and so that's your primary knowledge about this. But we were trying to think ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Richard L Liliedahl, Teresa Keane-North
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Cafeteria Benefit Plans
    employees into more cost-conscious consumers of health care services. Companies llke Quaker Oats, Xerox, Alcoa ... a way to deal with the problem of soaring health care 372 OPENFORUM costs. At Goodrich, over the last ...

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    • Authors: David G Adams, Richard S Bilisoly, Dale L Gifford, Allan J Grosh, Thomas Smith
    • Date: Apr 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Life Insurance>Group plans - Life Insurance; Pensions & Retirement>Corporate plans
  • Current Topics in Employer Stop Loss
    three-and-a-half years, and before that I was on the direct side for 20 years. I’ve been involved with this ... MGU. There’s less control of the underwriting. A direct carrier that has a significant amount of the risk ...

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    • Authors: Raymond J Marra, Michael McLean, Jerome Winkelstein, Daniel Wolak
    • Date: May 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Group ASO and Minimum Premium Plans
    problems for them to charge back to a specific job any direct-claim payments in a month where the claims had ... arrange the plan so that it is second and not primary? MR. BARKSDALE: Quality of claims control varies ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, William Cunningham, Richard G Murdock, Richard J Barksdale
    • Date: Jun 1978
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability