Description: Representatives of various health care professions will address issues such as falling hospital occupancy rates and a growing shortage of primary care physicians. The presenters will then discuss the short-term and long-term effects of these issues on the health care delivery systems on North America. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting presents the risks and rewards of managed Medicaid plans from both the perspective of the managed care organization and the state.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses the Health Organization Risk-Based Capital formula.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session the panelists provided five different perspectives of small-group health insurance reform. Perspectives included: 1. Legislative issues perspective. 2. A small group insurance company perspective. 3. The employer perspective. 4. The reinsurance perspective. 5. The compliance perspective.

Description: Discussion of merger and acquisitions issues pertaining to health insurance business. Includes: 1. Due diligence 2. Valuation of business 3. Administrative problems to resolve.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Traditional reinsurers have become more conservative in recent years as the individual disability insurance industry continues to report poor financial results. Some reinsurers have exited the marketplace, while some others have raised rates, restricted certain coverages, tightened underwriting, and taken other actions to manage the risks. Thus, alternatives to traditional DI reinsurance are discussed.