Description: This session covers the economic principles of “buffet pricing” and whether such pricing can be used for health care. Presented is an argument in favor of “all you can eat” pricing of health care where consumers pay a fixed fee and have no constraints on consumption. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 118

Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Panelelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting discuss risk management for long-term care insurance, the design of long-term care morbidity studies, LTC morbidity trends, and the impact of morbidity on plan design.

Description: Under the new long term care model regulation, initial filing requirements include a statement regarding underwriting practices, which makes an actuary's awareness of underwriting techniques even more important. This session discusses underwriting tools and strategies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 112OF

Description: Panelists provide an overview of long-term-care insurance. They present basic information relating to how the product works, unique pricing and risk considerations, marketing, and reserve and capital requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 48

Description: In this session, an employer representative and broker will discuss their views on the current health care marketplace and cost containment including utilization review, self-funded plans and ASOs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about home health care product development issues. Topics include marketing, insurability, plan design, available data, manged care, provider's viewpoint and public program experience. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panel discusses a variety of current issues in the senior health-care marketplace, including the effects of current, pending, and proposed Medicare changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discussion covers: how hospitals and hospital management companies are increasingly entering traditional indemnity insurance markets, hospital representatives address health care financing from the hospital perspective, the risks and financial incentives from the hospital's perspective, and whether hospitals are marginally pricing their health insurance products.

Description: This presentation from Session 111OF of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting covers the new medical technologies and how they affect the price of medicine, the delivery of health care, the cost of care, claims handling, utilization, and cost management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.