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: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers trends in health group products and experience, including managed care, PPO's, HMO's, POS's and PHO's. It also covers new developments in group long term disability products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.