Description: This session discussion is about long-term health care funding. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about open ended managed care plans from various perspectives including structure, marketing and actuarial issues.

Description: The main purpose on this panel discussion is to deal with certain actions which private health insurance must take if the threat of socialized medicine and state health insurance is to be overcome. The panelists address the following issues: 1. How hospital and medical care needs are being met [or can be met] by health insurance plans, 2. The role of local, state and federal government agencies, and 3. The relations of hospitals and the medical profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Many long-term-care insurers are outsourcing administrative functions to management organizations. The panelists discuss the reasons for this outsourcing, the functions that can be outsourced, financial incentives for vendors, criteria for selecting a vendor, monitoring performance and other aspects of the business relationship.

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: 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: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Defines programs related to providing long-term care for the aging population through Life Care Societies 'LCS', nursing care products, Continuing Care Retirement Communities, etc. and actuarial considerations related to LCS in establishing funding requirements and evaluating liabilities.

Description: This is a panel discussion about the future of health care and health care insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 58

Description: At this presentation from Session 7PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists comment on the value they place on ensuring proper management of risk, contract preparation, underwriting and claim handling for long-term care policies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.