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

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 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 session discusses continuing care retirement communities. What opportunities exist? What role does the actuary play? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

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 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 discussion legal liability for unfavorable medical outcomes, effect of utilization review on the quality of care and patient/provider acceptance, protocol development and implementation for managed care, and insurance coverage necessary to protect your organization. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.