Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting covers current and future issues relating to individual and small group medical insurance. This includes implications of market consolidation, regulatory issues and demographic trends. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 5PD.

Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the future of individual comprehensive medical expense insurance including trends, state regulation, plan design, and financial experience. From Record Of The Society Of Actuaries Volume 8, Number 4

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the financial implications of managed care for health insurance profitability. Factors that affect profitability for managed care companies and health insurance companies are discussed.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about the NAIC and HIAA models, as well as state regulations proposed or adopted to regulate small group underwriting and rate guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: Open meeting of the Society's Health Benefit Systems Practice Advancement Committee and Health Section Council, as well as the American Academy of Actuaries' Health Practice Council. The three committees review ongoing projects in the Health Practice area. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about what factors affect the small employer's choice of programs, how may the small employer capitalize on recent developments in managed health care, what problems do insurance companies have in marketing and communicating their plans to small employers, are partially self-insured benefits a threat or an opportunity for carriers in this market. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss prescription drug issues including the drivers or cost, employer response to increasing costs, and how this issue is addressed in mergers and acquisitions of pharmaceutical companies.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present various physician incentive programs, including withholds, bonuses, capitation, and other risk-sharing concepts. Implications and effectiveness of each type of program and appropriate situations for applying each program are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss the contractual relationships between health-care providers and health-care insurers [payers], and how they can be improved. Discussed are managed care, HMO, and PPO types of negotiated contracts in the private arena. Recent trends in types of provider arrangements, and expectations for the future, are also discussed. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 97PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.