Description: Presentation at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session will discuss trends in medical technology as they affect health care benefits programs, including: life extension, organ transplants, high-cost procedures, and plan design.

Description: A comparison of fully insured medical insurance to two self- funding alternatives , specific and aggregate and level funding .

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: this article provides an overview of coverage and claim trends for managed care medical excess of loss insurance and reinsurance programs. it addresses features such as deductible, maximum benefit, inside limits , comprehensive versus non- comprehensive , and claims by diagnosis for commercial , Medicare and Medicaid risk. It also reviews cost containment support programs for catastrophic claims .

Description: This article enumerates many important considerations for a managing general underwriter(MGU) desiring to contract with an insurance carrier to issue and service provider excess of loss policies covering catastrophic medical risks assumed by accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Description: Full version of Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: This session 62 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on provider excess reinsurance, which is an excess of loss coverage for providers assuming risk under various forms of managed care arrangements, such as HMOs, PPOs, and Medicare/Medicaid. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, July 2007, Issue No. 60.

Description: Letter to the Editor by Mark Troutman from Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, May 2006, Issue No. 57.