Description: This panel discussion session focuses on innovative health insurance plan design. Items discussed include programs that change behavior, eliminating coverage for items that are not medically necessary, and the Voluntary Cost Containment Program of the Health Insurance Association. Record of the SOA, Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: This panel discussion occurred at the SOA's 1980 June Meeting in San Diego and covered National Health Insurance. It addressed Canadian exprience and related it to potential U.S. National Health Care. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about hospital strategies in delivering and financing care, physician reaction to current market, physician strategies in delivering and financing care, and provider reaction to managed care programs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about employer mandates, state regulations [retirement communities & HMOs, NAIC rate regulation exposure draft ], relations with regulators and relations with health care providers. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This presentation from Session 86PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting is about disease management. The panelists address the following questions: What is disease management? Who is leading the disease management effort and what are the objectives? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Attendees learn about the Patient's Bill of Rights, pressures on managed care programs and the strategies being used to address the changing dynamics of the managed care environments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 116

Description: CMS provides a significant and growing amount of information that can be leveraged by actuaries. Between the public use and research files CMS makes publicly available, large amounts of information that can be assimilated to help understand the who, what, when, where and how of Medicare. With the CMS allowance of supplemental benefits to address SDOH, adding SDOH data into your data landscape is critical to better understand your members' cost drivers. The presenters will focus on the depth and breadth of data available, summarize any restrictions on the use of the data, and identify areas where access to the new data can provide more meaningful insights.

Description: The focus of the webcast on Modeling Long–Term Medical Trends for Valuation Purposes was a discussion of the underlying methodology of the model, a walk through of the actual model, and a review of the considerations for its practical usage by actuaries. The running time of this video is 1 hour and 3 minutes. It is a presentation of slides without audio.

Description: This session making health care more affordable through health care reform, changes to tax policy, and managed care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: Discussion of possible national health care reform measures, including coverage for the unemployed, employer-mandated plans, publicly funded and administrated plans. Also an overview of recently enacted legislation at both the state and federal level, and measures taken by provider organizations, for controlling costs.. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.