Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: This paper presents a method involving re-sampling 'with replacement but without random numbers', numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and estimation of confidence intervals for trend in average size claim. In this paper, this method is applied to major medical claims.

Description: This report provides morbidity experience under Individual Loss-of-Time policies, 1974-1975.

Description: Article presents new course readings that cover hot health topics that will expand actuarial expertise in the Health Systems practice area.

Description: Article is about community rating and risk adjustment including possible disadvantages for healthy experience-rated or self-insured groups.

Description: Critical illness policies pay a large lump sum based upon diagnosis of conditions such as heart attack, stroke, life-threatening cancer, kidney failure, etc. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1, session 119PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.

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: The measure of a health-care provider's quality and efficiency can be used to reward or penalize the provider through reimbursement strategies and plan designs. Panelists discuss the measures that are becoming available. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 24PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65