Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters examined alternative marketing methods that bridge buyers and sellers. Subjects discussed: 1. Work-site marketing. 2. Nontraditional marketing survey presentation. 3. Marketing through property and casualty agents.

Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This discussion looks at Group Accident and Sickness Insurance and asks the following questions: What loss ratios are expected during 1960 and 1961 under newly determined premium rates for basic medical care, supplementary major medical and comprehensive major medical insurance coverages? What are the design trends under comprehensive major medical insurance coverages? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting covers group insurance underwriting and selection issues including self insurance, financial results of group insurers, the underwriting and selection issues involving nontraditional group benefit programs, and techniques for monitoring the underwriting policy.

Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on methods and considerations that are currently being used in analyzing various risks of concern to the health valuation actuary. The session looks at concepts and types of risks, considerations and influences affecting the actuary, formulas and methods for evaluating risk, and the present status of the health insurance valuation actuary concept.

Description: This panel discusses the new customers, new forms of risk-sharing and new ways of reinsuring these risks. It also looks at the future in this rapidly changing market. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: The evolving specialty pharmacy environment has created difficulties for actuaries pricing and forecasting pharmacy coverage. Unpredictable specialty pharmacy trends have increased insurers' earnings volatility and affected members' health care affordability. The presenters will highlight the current specialty drug development pipeline and explore specialty pharmacy drug trend management strategies. They will also provide concepts to help manage the coming wave of gene and cell therapies.

Description: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act affects all exchanges of health information. It has a major impact on health-care management and the distribution of health information used in underwriting and claim management practices for all medical and non-medical lines. Also discussed are changes to Medicare, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, and a proposed prescription drug plan under Medicare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 24PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting.

Description: This is a discussion about group life and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.