Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed credibility theory. Areas addressed included defining credibility and the complexities of measuring it with an emphasis on group medical insurance.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: This session discussion is about dimensions of AIDS and health insurance products. From Record of the Society of Actuaries1988 Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: At this presentation, the panelists address the following questions: 1. How is health insurance risk measured? 2. How and why do surplus requirements differ between health insurance and life insurance? 3. How and why do surplus requirements differ among health insurers [e.g., Commercial, Blue Cross, HMO] and among health insurance products? 3. What are some of the current techniques being used by health insurers for determining target or required surplus and for managing surplus? 4. How do the rating agencies view surplus requirements for health insurers? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: Presenter offers ways in which actuaries might set credibility levels to be used by underwriters to set group health insurance expected benefits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about experience-rating and credibility in group health insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about the group health underwriting cycle, including the causes and effects of going from profitable years to less profitable times, how to manage the cycle, and different perspectives on causes and reactions to the cycle. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This paper describes a modified development method for analyzing claims experience and calculating claim reserves and liabilities on short-term health insurance benefits. It identifies many of the influences on claim development and discusses various ways to recognize them. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting focuses on group health insurance including discussion of financial projections, calculating reserves, claims control and management reports.

Description: A mathematical framework for benefits and choices must be created, in order to model flexible benefit selection. This paper creates such a framework by defining benefit plans as reimbursement functions. These are then used with a defined choice function to calculate the cost deviation due to selection. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992, VOL. 1.