Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses possible strategies to identify and control factors causing medical inflation.

Description: Panelists discuss opportunities to improve medical cost trends through underwriting, healthcare benefit designs, contracting, network management, claims operations, and medical management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 40

Description: Attendees will learn about new and emerging techniques for optimizing health care utilization from the highest users of health care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 129

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session on physician reimbursements focused on arrangements that might be offered by managed care companies, such as HMOs. It included an overview of key definitions, concepts, and incentive compensation arrangements.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting offer several approaches to creative provider reimbursement where a single capitation and fee schedule was not the best solution.