Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Target Markets - true third party, fictitious trust, individuals, Media - mail, television, periodicals, Product choice and design.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about participation in alternative delivery systems, direct contracting with medical providers, participation in coalitions, employer demands for data, employer selection criteria for health carriers.

Description: Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52. This article presents information from a recently completed client-sponsored survey of hospital contracting best practices. Individual health plans were evaluated using a structured survey document. The primary objective of the survey was to identify best practices that the client sponsor could implement to improve its already better-than-average hospital contracting practices

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that in today's direct-response marketplace, the consensus is that there are a lot of problems, and some promises, but little, if any, profitability, the panelists discuss long-term care, dread disease, and return of premium [ROP] products, and targeting profitability through research. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This session covers how reinsurers and direct writers respond to emerging experience and work together to modify contract terms or take other actions to represent and protect each party's interest. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 6

Description: Access the most current issue, as well as back issues, of Long Term Care News.

Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2021 Health Care Cost Model about the sources of data, other reports, and assumptions which were used to populate this report and drive some of the key considerations.

Description: This essay focuses on elements of success in a system linked to employment.

Description: Realizing the impact of medical errors on the U.S. health care system, the Health Section commissioned a research project to measure the annual frequency of medical errors and their total measurable direct and indirect cost to the economy.