Description: This presentation from Session 5PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting discusses the types of problems that arise when providers own their own health plan. As an example, it describes the birth pains and subsequent growing pains of SureCare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington Annual Meeting discuss the actuarial, business, clinical, and ethical issues related to physician ownership of health plans.