Description: Description of and reasons for Health Section strategic initiative relating to self insurance

Description: Announcement that the report of the Self-Insurance Task Force, a Health Section Strategic Initiative, has been released.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session about stop loss insurance covered emerging experience, underwriting trends, PPO pricing, competitive pricing, financial, new products, and hospital and physician-only issues.

Description: Large claims have always been a major source of volatility in health care claims experience. In this session, the presenters will discuss techniques for analyzing large claims, predicting large claims and measuring the associated risk. The presenters will also discuss the early results of the SOA 5/50 research project which will examine the 5% of the population that accounts for 50% of the health care costs.

Description: Ignite-style presentations feature presenters who get 20 slides, which automatically advance every 15 seconds. The result is a fast and fun presentation which lasts just five minutes.The first portion of this session will feature public health experts doing Ignite-style presentations on various public health topics. Then stick around for the second portion when all of the presenters will take part in a moderated, talk-show-style discussion. You'll get a chance to ask your questions and dig deeper into the topics you just heard about. Be prepared for a fast-paced, thought-provoking session that you'll remember long after it ends!

Description: This monograph explains the ways actuaries are or could be involved in the self-insured employer health plan marketplace today and in the future.

Description: This session provides an overview of industry approaches to valuing the liabilities of nontraditional health products. Liabilities for losses that have been incurred but not reported and for losses that have been reported but not paid are examined. Includes a discussion on employer specific stop-loss, provider excess loss, critical illness and cancer insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 133

Description: Medical insurance today is more like pre-paid medical payments. Medical insurance should be bought for protection, but rarely used, like auto insurance.