Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the future of individual comprehensive medical expense insurance including trends, state regulation, plan design, and financial experience. From Record Of The Society Of Actuaries Volume 8, Number 4

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the movement to small group health plans, group insurance underwriting, the plan design of non-traditional benefit programs such as cafeteria plans, HMO's and PPO's and new financial processes. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the issues in the individual medical insurance market - escalating costs, utilization rates and anti-select lapsation, the potential solutions and the challenges facing the actuary.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session is about actuarial implications of individual choice, antiselection problems for medical coverages, plan design considerations, flexible benefits program experience, impact of alternative delivery systems on insured plan.

Description: This session discussion legal liability for unfavorable medical outcomes, effect of utilization review on the quality of care and patient/provider acceptance, protocol development and implementation for managed care, and insurance coverage necessary to protect your organization. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: Since 1942, Metropolitan Life has been producing tables that show the weights at which mortality is lowest. Their purpose is to promote sound concepts of weight control. This article discusses Metropolitan's 1983 height and weight tables.

Description: Summary of the National Conference on Medical Costs, held in Washington, D.C. on June 28-29, 1967.

Description: This paper provides a description of a method that one can use to develop an estimate of accident year incurred losses if the only available data is aggregate paid losses by calendar year for a number of calendar years. An exhibit demonstrating the use of this method follows this description. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.