Description: Panelists discuss various managed care strategies and their experiences with how well these strategies have been implemented in the individual and small group market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium presents major results of the group's discussions on the practice notes for large group medical and stop-loss insurance including the definition of small groups, the rating structure, adequacy of asset determination and methods for testing reserve adequacy.

Description: This session is about health insurance cash-flow testing through liability and asset modeling for individual disability income insurance and health valuations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers living benefit riders including benefit designs, regulatory activity, tax status, pricing considerations and reserves.

Description: This research report examines the potential implications of the risk mitigation programs – risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors – established under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Description: A discussion by several experts of reform activity at the state level will be included. What can be learned from reforms to date? What is likely to happen in the near term? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Products - design, policy provisions, impact from changes in the health care system, Marketing - traditional and alternative distribution systems and concept of product brokerage, and Administration - cost effectiveness, group trust mechanisms, use of technology, regulatory environment.

Description: At this presentation from Session 81PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists examine current issues involving small-employer health reinsurance programs from viewpoints of both the direct writer and the reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: In this session on the topic of health insurance valuation issues, the topics covered included Sarbanes-Oxley considerations, internal replacement Standards of Practice, self-funded plans, and long-term-care insurance developments. From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 38, Number 1 - January 2004