Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: This article explores telemedicine's impact on the health care system, health care costs, and actuarial pricing.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Health Benefit Systems Practice Advancement Committee sponsored this review of recent academic literature on the US healthcare system covering quality, access, costs

Description: This session at the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting focuses on mental health care, including issues with treatment, managing cost, benefit structures, managed care concepts and utilization review.

Description: Feature article describing what health actuaries think will be the future role of actuaries in the health care industry.

Description: Presenter discusses the results published in Dr. David Eisenberg's paper entitled, Integrative Medicine, and offers an update on the data collection effort of the SOA Task Force on Alternative Care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: From session 30OF at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This session introduces a popular new model, the Quality Compass Model, which seeks to balance concerns regarding consumer satisfaction, clinical outcomes, cost, and utilization.

Description: Coverage of Medicaid home and community-based services under the 1915(i) state plan option: Attractive features and important considerations

Description: This session discussion is an overview of issues and recent developments: alternative delivery systems, managed care, utilization review, traditional group insurance, actuarial issues of AIDS, Medicare and retiree medical benefits, COBRA, the uninsured etc., HMO solvency, and long-term care. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Physician performance is key to minimizing the cost of health care and providing health care benefits. Measuring and managing physician performance may be the factor that determines who survives in the next century. This presentation from Session 70PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting is about profiling and managing physician performance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.