Description: Panelists discuss the tools available for coping with increases in rates for managed-care health insurance, such as: improved information on specific providers [relative costs, charges, and efficiency], analysis of the value of managed-care administrative fees, The Leapfrog Group, other data-quality initiatives, and plan-design changes. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 149OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about point-of-service plans, overview of current enrollment statistics/ tends, in-network and out network utilization patterns, trends in benefit design, employer/benefit consulting demands and employee/employer satisfaction.

Description: This article describes the results of three years of work by Blue Shield of California to collaborate with hospitals and physician organizations to reduce cost and improve quality for commercial populations in targeted geographies.