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.

Description: Discussion of current developments affecting flexible-benefit plans, pricing and underwriting considerations in a flexible-benefits environment, managed care options in a flexible plan, employer challenges in managing flexible programs, employer cost target and pitfalls.

Description: There is considerable controversy regarding the role, if any, of HIV in causing AIDS. This panel will update attendees on the issues involved in examining this matter. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. An investment manager discusses investment strategy for a disability insurer and a rating agency representative and a stock analyst describe how disability insurers are evaluated for risk profile and other issues.

Description: This presentation from Session 4PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting provides an update on the issues addressed and findings reached by the American Academy of Actuaries [AAA] work group responsible for Medical Savings Accounts [MSAs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss how clinicians and actuaries work together in a managed care environment and how they can serve as a resource to each other. Views are presented from both a clinician and an actuary.

Description: The panelinsts at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present final results of the Group Long Term Disablility Experience Study and discuss the valuation and termination rate issues raised by the study.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting offer several approaches to creative provider reimbursement where a single capitation and fee schedule was not the best solution.

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.