Description: Excel file containing extracts of utilization and costs for chiropractic and acupunture - females. From a research project examining the utility of standard eligibility and claims extracts for complementary and alternative medical therapies - CAM analysis.

Description: This review uses historical and contemporary sources to trace the growth of national health expenditures in the US from 1776 to 2026.

Description: Diagnostic coding in dental is in its infancy. This article explores the use of medical diagnostic coding and how it may transform dental care in various ways.

Description: This article discusses how medicine is now inextricably linked with genomics, and within the clinical community the call is out for frontline physicians to become familiar with genetic science.

Description: This session discussion is about health care trends including current experience, measurement problems, effect of selection, and variation by size of group. Also discussed is the new Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule, anticipated cost shifting, and AIDS. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1990 Vol. 16, No. 4A.

Description: The essay discusses the appropriate role of insurance companies, efficient and economical ways to care for chronic illnesses and having a maximum price society will pay to support the ongoing life of any one individual.

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: Panelists discuss several factors impacting the pricing and design of health products. Topics include the recession, managed care, defined-contribution plans, employer perspective and provider pricing power. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 81

Description: Attendees learn the major issues on both sides of the single-payer health care issue. They learn the challenges associated with a massive conversion of our health care system and explore the economic impact of such changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 110

Description: This paper discusses the quality of healthcare verses the price of healthcare and puruses individuals and doctors making decisions for their own healthcare costs and services.