Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed credibility theory. Areas addressed included defining credibility and the complexities of measuring it with an emphasis on group medical insurance.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about heath insurance issues affecting the 25-250 life group market including marketing, rating, reinsurance, and products.

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: This session discussion is about outside actuarial profession's perspective on health care cost, insurer's role in medical care management, relationships between treatment decisions, available coverage, appropriate use of underwriting and paying for uncompensated care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

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: This paper presents a method involving re-sampling 'with replacement but without random numbers', numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and estimation of confidence intervals for trend in average size claim. In this paper, this method is applied to major medical claims.

Description: This report provides morbidity experience under Individual Loss-of-Time policies, 1974-1975.

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.