Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about trends in utilization review 'UR', preadmission certification, concurrent review, discharge planning, retrospective review, considerations in the design or purchase of UR services, normative data and monitoring UR, recent experience of UR programs and future expectations.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the state-of-the-art in packaged software, the requirements of such systems, and current and future health care developments that must be addressed.

Description: Panel dicussion on the need for information to keep a block of long-term care insurance profitable: what the business risks are, what is being done to mitigate them, what kind of reports are needed, and how these differ from reporting on other types of health insurance.

Description: This discussion on expenses, briefly looks at what the smaller company can do about increasing unit costs and in view of increased costs, what simplifications can be made in the routine of policy change procedures.

Description: Noted author and speaker talks about risk and the nature of risk, drawing from his extensive knowledge and experience in economics and finance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 1GS of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Panelists provide insight into the factors driving the cost increase of prescription drugs and how these factors are being addressed. Strategies include drug utilization review, manufacturer contracting, benefit design, formularies, pharmaceutical pricing, therapeutic substitution, physical education, and introduction of new pharmaceuticals. Also discussed are pharmacoeconomic benefit considerations when studying integrated medical and pharmacy expenses.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: Panel discussion of varying views on: substandard underwriting with prudent pricing, qualified vs. nonqualified plans and the need for IRS clarifications, rate stabilization and aggressive pricing, noncancellable products and product features.

Description: This session took place at the Society of Actuaries Spring 1975 Meeting in New York. The presenters discussed actuarial reports to management, including those chronicling past experience, forecasts of the future, including recommendations for change in response to future influences, and reports acting as alerts or warning basis to emerging trends.

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.