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: 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: 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: 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 keynote address at the SOA 1998 Maui II spring meeting is a physician's outlook on the state of medicine in 1998, and what might be expected to change and not change in the short term and long term future.

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.

Description: Panelists discuss recent developments that may impact health care costs over the next few years, such as: · Trends in research and treatment for various diseases · Advances in diagnoses, therapies, and medications · Various clinical trials From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 73

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