Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium reviews the appointed actuary concept, the actuarial opinion and asset adequacy analysis as they apply to health insurance and expresses the views of one regulator on the subject and one actuary in terms of the actuarial standards of practice.

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS and projecting extra mortality, implications of legislation & regulation, to what extent can AIDS deaths be identified, adequate pricing, limitations on underwriting and reinsurance implications. Includes examples from the UK and Australia. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses possible strategies to identify and control factors causing medical inflation.

Description: Panelists define the various provider-centered managed-health-care entities and discuss the differences among them. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the impact point-of-service [POS] plans have had on both HMOs and on indemnity carriers. Different types of POS plans and the problems presented by primary care gatekeepers are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss different aspects of self-selection among Medicare options. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the strategies various insurers have taken in response to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] requirement to use guaranteed issue for small group and certain individual health plans to qualified individuals.