Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses costs, cost measurement and control, how target cost levels are established, and the cost/benefit perceptions of employers.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session on physician reimbursements focused on arrangements that might be offered by managed care companies, such as HMOs. It included an overview of key definitions, concepts, and incentive compensation arrangements.

Description: This session will teach the ABCs of HMOs and PHOs. Topics include provider networks, contracting, utilization controls, integrated health care, From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discuss Health Maintenance Organizaions [HMOs] including their hisotry, the marketplace, physician structures and relationships with HMOs, cost control issues and the future of HMOs.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the results of risk adjuster research in health care assessment and discusses the potential use of risk adjusters in health care reform efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about meeting the health insurance needs and desires of large employers through managed competition, a key component of which is measuring quality and outcome.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about trends in utilization review 'UR', preadmission certification, concurrent review, discharge planning, retrospective review, considerations in the design or purchase of UR services, normative data and monitoring UR, recent experience of UR programs and future expectations.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.