Description: Recent health-care cost trends have exhibited significant variability by insurer, geographic area and type of benefit. Employers and insurers are increasing co-pays and reimposing managed care provisions. How have these factors affected the measured trend. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 17

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: 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.

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: Panelists discuss current issues and trends impacting health plan contracting with providers. Hospital and physician contracting is discussed from both a payer's and provider's persepctive. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 30

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: This panel discussion session examines the meaning and implication of holistic health. From the 1979 Record of SOA, Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: Panelists discuss the role of the valuation actuary in health insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about health systems in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It includes critical issues facing each system and their relative strength and weaknesses. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4A.

Description: This is a panel discussion on health planning and cost containment. The session concentrates on the roles of the insurers and group policyholder in working towards improvement in the health care delivery system. This includes reducing utilization, the supply of services and prices for services.