Description: This is the second installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs.

Description: This article is about how actuarial services can be applied to life care retirement communities.

Description: Discussion of Alternative or Integrative Care - Fundamental themes, market demand, recent activity, developing an alternative care program, pricing benefits Issue No. 34.

Description: This presentation from Session 86PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting provides the physician perspective on ethical questions resulting from utilization review decisions infringing on physician decisions in providing health care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about methods of managing care, what methods have been most effective, experience to date under managed care products, are savings being generated, employer acceptance of managed care products, provider acceptance of managed care products, what will future managed care programs look like. Includes a discussion on utilization review and management, From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: With the creation of 'qualified' long-term-care plans behind us, companies now have additional information regarding interpretations from the Treasury Department, regulations and directives from insurance departments, and feedback from the consumer. This presentation from Session 128PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting looks at what has been learned in the past two years about long-term care insurance and what state and federal regulatory changes may be on the horizon. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: This presentation from Session 111OF of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting covers the new medical technologies and how they affect the price of medicine, the delivery of health care, the cost of care, claims handling, utilization, and cost management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Concerns of Long-Term Care Insurance for consumers, life insurance agents, financial planners, insurance companies and regulators. From Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2

Description: An editorial about the status of health care reform in the U.S.