Description: This session features a moderated discussion between medical professionals who are experts in long-term care. The presenters are outside the LTC insurance industry altogether, which will ensure that attendees receive a truly external perspective.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about health care trend including current experience, measurement techniques and problems, uses of trend projections, and other considerations such as the impact of selection and the impact of initial and renewal underwriting practices. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This article is about the cost-benefit relationship of advances in longevity and taking personal responsibility for one's own wellness.

Description: What is the difference between a Single-Payer and Universal Health Care System, and how could the U.S. implement a system that would reduce the growth of medical costs while increasing quality.

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: Diagnostic coding in dental is in its infancy. This article explores the use of medical diagnostic coding and how it may transform dental care in various ways.

Description: The article described recent major advances in measurement of health programs and providers in the public and private sector.

Description: Summary of the 1974 report of the HIAA Prevailing Health Care Charges System which contains data from about 900,000 charges for up to 1,600 different surgical procedures, summarized for 250 geographical areas. From The Actuary Vol. 9, No. 7

Description: Countries developing universal health care via an insurance vehicle face a variety of challenges. Deciding which benefits to include, where to proactively manage health, and how to reimburse network providers are just a sampling of the issues governments concurrently manage. Optimal choices are data-driven responses. For example, high rates of cervical cancer or increasing narcotics prescriptions are trends that can be managed through product changes, modified network payment structures, or even employer based outreach. This kind of information is typically gleaned from established health insurance claims data. However, in emerging health insurance markets, this level of granular claims data is largely missing. It is difficult to manage medical trend when the root causes are unclear. This article explores a pilot medical underwriting project in Jordan.

Description: This article discusses how medicine is now inextricably linked with genomics, and within the clinical community the call is out for frontline physicians to become familiar with genetic science.