Description: This session 99PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting summary: Insurers today are looking for new ways to use currently available experience data to better predict future costs. Both the federal and state governments are looking at the possibility of using prescription drug data because it is more available and often of higher quality than other experience data. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 99PD.

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: Panelists discuss the use of predictive modeling for health insurance in underwriting, rating, case management, etc. Panelists also discuss practical issues associated with implementing predictive modeling. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 99OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.