Description: Panelists discuss recent innovations in the 'special risk' market, the regulatory environment, and pricing issues. Focus is on critical illness insurance.

Description: Presenter discusses the results published in Dr. David Eisenberg's paper entitled, Integrative Medicine, and offers an update on the data collection effort of the SOA Task Force on Alternative Care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This presentation, session number 103PD, took place at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 17-20 in San Francisco. The panelists review the history of credit insurance, discussing credit insurance regulation, changing consumers’ attitudes toward credit insurance, changes in the products and marketplace, and how the Consumer Credit Insurance Association has evolved since its founding in 1951. The panelists then discuss where the credit insurance industry is heading with respect to new product development and marketing methods, consumer attitudes, and further changes in regulation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss the various models for providing dental insurance and the pricing implications of each.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: This session summarizes recent trends in behavioral health parity, pros and cons of parity, the impact of mandated benefits on near-term medical costs and methods to effectively manage mental health utilization. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 81

Description: This session of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses health liabilities and reserves.

Description: This session discussion is about medical technology: trends and proliferation of medical technology, its impact, future, employer strategies to limit exposure, considerations of containing utilization of various procedures and technology. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This 1992 discussion is about the resource-based relative value scale [RBRVS]- where it is and where it's going, and its impact on trends, Medicare supplemental coverage, indemnity plans, and health cost projections. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.