Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses trends in group medical product design including cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting considerations, rating considerations and monitoring and evaluating effectiveness. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1986 Chicago Annual Meeting discusses pros, cons and issues for both indemnity Medicare Supplement policies and the recent Health Maintenance Organization Medicare Risk Contracts.

Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Definition of good and sufficient provision for unpaid and actuarial liabilities as used in the NAIC model bill, Actuary and auditor relationships in documentation, reasonableness of results, materiality, margins, and disclosure, Techniques for estimating unpaid claim liabilities, Reverse testing, Considerations regarding incurred date coding in establishing claim reserves, Reserving methodologies for alternative funding products, Reserves for catastrophic claims, Measurement, evaluation, and adjustment for claim department backlogs, changes in claim submission patterns, and environmental changes, etc.

Description: This panel discussion addressed the impact of inflation on Group Insurance. Discussion focused on pricing techniques, plan design issues and reserving methods.

Description: Panelists discuss the various types of risks in health insurance and health-care delivery, and various types of risk-absorption mechanisms for sharing these risks among providers, insurers, employers, and employees. In addition, they address the management of the risk from a corporate perspective, which will include bottom-line earnings and marketing goals and objectives. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on group life and health insurance including external changes in market characteristics and needs and strategies to respond to market conditions. From Vol. 9, No. 1

Description: This session discussion is about PPOs' types of sponsors, structures, effectiveness and regulation. Includes a discussion on PPOs in the UK. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.