Description: This session discussion is about high cost claimants in medical benefit plans and how to control costs and anti-selection. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting focuses on mental health care, including issues with treatment, managing cost, benefit structures, managed care concepts and utilization review.

Description: Panelists, representing commercial carriers and large and small independent carriers, discuss what changes they envision in the industry of health maintenance organizations [HMOs]. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This session is about health risk adjusters and includes a discussion on risk assessment, actuarial applications, New York small-group reform, medical management applications, Rand 36, and other methods. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: Discusses health-care-cost reimbursement structures, from the facility/hospital perspective and the professional/doctor perspective. Also discusses risk-absorption methods. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about PPOs' types of sponsors, structures, effectiveness and regulation. Includes a discussion on PPOs in the UK. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses many types of individual annuity products including single premium - SPDA's, annual premium, and flexible premium deferred annuities and structured settlement plans.

Description: The author presents a mathematical proof of what happens to premiums when interest rate changes and disproves the theorem set forth in the October 1984 issue of the Actuary.