Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and surplus levels.

Description: This session discussion is about plan design, pricing considerations, actual emerging experience, underwriting considerations, employee acceptance, success in meeting employers' objectives and Section 89 considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present current developments in both Medicare risk programs and Medicare supplement products.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about mid-size and large group medical issues, including: 1. Managing the underwriting cycle, 2. Effectively managing the risk, 3. Controlling medical costs, 4. Financial arrangements offered to control or shift risk [i.e., Administrative Services Only [ASO] and minimum premium contracts], and 5. The effect of the Resource-Based Relative Value Schedule [RBRVS] on provider fees and plan costs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss the various models for providing dental insurance and the pricing implications of each.

Description: This session will discuss the role of actuaries under national health insurance, role of the Canadian health actuaries under that national program and how actuaries can shape the health-care environment in the U.S.. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: This session is about discrimination issues, dealing with HMOs, effect of cost containment provisions, current cost trend levels, recent trends in benefit design and other current issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This session addressed the following regarding benefit plan design to control claim costs: What has been tried? What works? and What else can be tried?

Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discusses the history of HMOs with respect to actuarial support and looks at how actuaries can and should be involved in supporting HMOs.