Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing opportunities, marketing techniques, product selection and design.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Target Markets - true third party, fictitious trust, individuals, Media - mail, television, periodicals, Product choice and design.

Description: This session discusses various techniques for evaluating the success of an existing network as defined by profitability, risk exposure and long-term viability. Topics include network design, provider changes and quality measurement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 92

Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: The editorial shares observations and lessons learned from the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Relative to group medical plans, discusses: recognition given to effect on morbidity of various demographic factors, consideration given to inflation in making rate guarantees, consideration given to group size, and underwriting transfer cases.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how employers are trying to limit their risks under medical care plans and the implications of such strategies for carriers. This session considered the differences in the economic and random fluctuation risks, and the effectiveness of programs in controlling each.

Description: This report compares health care utilization and expenditures between individuals with Crohn’s disease who had used infliximab and those who had not. Claims data from the 1999-2003 Thomson Reuters MarketScan commercial claims and encounters databases and inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims data of individuals older than 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Crohn’s were included.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about credit card distribution systems, association endorsed marketing, direct response marketing and single premium credit insurance.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session focused on recent experience of programs designed to contain health care costs.