Description: This session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting deals with current issues in the commercially insured health provider stop-loss reinsurance marketplace, including pricing and actuarial issues and underwriting issues.

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: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting presents the risks and rewards of managed Medicaid plans from both the perspective of the managed care organization and the state.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss prescription drug issues including the drivers or cost, employer response to increasing costs, and how this issue is addressed in mergers and acquisitions of pharmaceutical companies.

Description: In this session we will discuss the impact of regulation changes that will allow members with End State Renal Disease (ESRD) to sign up for Medicare Advantage in 2021 for the first time. We will delve into the current basics of how ESRD works, the characteristics of the population that is currently on original medicare today, and a comprehensive look at what plan sponsors should be thinking about going into 2021.

Description: From the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Houston. Discussion of how the insurance industries in several countries have dealt with high levels of inflation with respect to the development and marketing of insurance products. Also discussed: I. the overall business and economic environment 2. the taxation structure of insurance companies 3. the availability of suitable investments 4. the insurance regulatory climate and 5. the structure of worldwide capital markets Possible applications to U.S. insurance in the 1980's were explored.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses health insurance including the topics of the Washington loss ratio report, problems which lead to regulatory difficulties later on, claims monitoring, setting claim reserves and pricing individual health policies.

Description: This session discussion is about state risk pools, Massachusetts programs, federal catastrophic coverage and mandated minimum health benefit coverage. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 4B.

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: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting discusses the design and implementation of employee benefits from the viewpoints of a consultant, a corporate client, an insurance company, and also from a collective bargaining perspective.