SOA - The Record – May 2004 Anaheim Spring Meeting Record Sessions

The Record

May 2004 Anaheim Spring Meeting Record Sessions
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This issue of The Record was edited by Rowen Bell, Raymond Berry, Joel Cornberg, Steve Lemanski, Dennis Monaghan, Daniel Nitz, Peter Perkins and Robert Pryor
This volume of The Record contains top sessions based on attendance and sessions approved and/or selected by the various sections of the SOA to be available on the Web. Please note some Sessions may not have Records available.
Session #1 GS (Record Not Available)
The Future of American Health Care: Realities, Challenges and Opportunities for Leadership
Edward F.X. Hughes
Session #3 PD
Hot Technologies
Charles Linn, Jerry Goedicke, Neil Raden, Jit Sinha
Session #4 PD (Record Not Available)
The Actuarial Employment Market Outside of North America
Brian J. Schnepff
Session #5 PD DC (Record Not Available)
Plan Asset Management for Employees
Beverly J. Orth, Anthony Webb
Session #6 PD
Long–Term Care Reinsurance
Steven J. Pummer, Timothy Edwin Hale, Andrew M. Perkins
Session #7 IF (Record Not Available)
Actuarial Board for Counseling & Discipline—Emphasizing the “C” in ABCD
Frank S. Irish, Timothy J. Adams, Thomas C. Griffin
Session #8 IF (Record Not Available)
Promoting You: Become a Self–Marketing Machine
John West Hadley, David C. Miller
Session #9 L
Communication and Other Skills Critical for the Success of the Profession in the Future
Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Valentina A. Isakina, Catherine Konsky
Session #10 OF (Record Not Available)
A Reevaluation of ASOP 27–Follow up to Financial Economics Symposium
Alan J. Stonewall, Frank Todisco
Session #11 OF
The Future Role of the DB Actuary
C. Ian Genno, Michael M. Croyle, Brain C. Ternoey
Session #14 GS (Record Not Available)
Challenges Facing the Defined Benefits System
Vince Snowbarger
Session #17 PD
Medical Trends
Lisa F. Tourville, John M. Bertko, Gordon Russel Hugh
Session #18 PD
Stochastic Modeling for Health Actuaries
Darrell D. Knapp, Doug Fearrington, Charles S. Fuhrer
Session #19 PD
Valuation of Retiree Health Benefits
David P. Kendall, Jin Ho Park, Dale H. Yamamoto
Session #20 PD (Record Not Available)
Individual Disability Product Update
Daniel D. Skwire, Matthew Gottfried, Kenneth M. Latus, William A. Obert
Session #21 PD
Probability of LTC Ruin?
Janet L. Perrie, Daniel Bret Cathcart, Amy Pahl, Janet L. Perrie
Session #22 PD (Record Not Available)
Latest Developments in Public Pension Plans
Alex Rivera, Ricky C. Reed, Blair Taylor
Session #24 PD
Risk Management for Health Insurance
John W. C. Stark, Kara L. Clark, Thomas R. Corcoran, Sudha Shenoy
Session #25 BG (Record Not Available)
Issues and Trends in Group Life
James F. Clark, John A. Bettano, Susan R. Sames
Session #26 IF (Record Not Available)
Promoting You: Clinching the Deal
John West Hadley, David C. Miller
Session #27 BG (Record Not Available)
A Futuristic Session–Looking Back at the Past Five Years of Health Care
Bryan F. Miller, David V. Axene, Dennis J. Hulet, Mark E. Litow, Greta Redmond
Session #28 OF (Record Not Available)
The Future of American Health Care: Further Thoughts
Neil A. Parmenter, Edward F.X. Hughes
Session #30 PD
Provider Contracting Issues and Trends
Thomas D. Snook, Frederick L. Davis, John M. Limm, Susan Elizabeth Pantely
Session #31 PD
Purchasing and Quality Initiatives of the Leapfrog Group and Other Large Employers
John P. Cookson, Jonathan E. Conklin, Michael James Thompson
Session #32 PD
Data Warehousing
Charles S. Fuhrer, Patrick McIntyre, Neil Raden
Session #33 PD
LTD Experience Trends: Social Security and Private Programs
Daniel D. Skwire, Eli Nicholas Donkar, Allen D. Livingood
Session #34 PD
Retirement Plan Governance
Anne M. Button, David K. Linnerman, S. Kai Petersen
Session #35 D
AHPS: Are Association Health Plans a Remedy of a Pending Disaster?
James T. O’Connor, Donald G. Dressler, Kris Haltmeyer
Session #36 OF (Record Not Available)
The Financial Revolution–Implications for Pension Finance
Bryan E. Boudreau
Session #37 OF (Record Not Available)
Terminal Funding: The Longevity Risk
John O. Nigh, Michael E. Gabon
Session #38 TS (Record Not Available)
Credibility Theory for LTC Actuaries
James M. Robinson
Session #42 SM (Record Not Available)
Education and Research Section Continental Breakfast
Eli Nicholas Donkar
Session #43 SM (Record Not Available)
Disability Special Interest Group Hot Breakfast
Daniel D. Skwire, Thomas R. Corcoran
Session #44 SM (Record Not Available)
Long–Term Care Insurance Section Hot Breakfast
James M. Glickman, Robert K. Yee
Session #47 PD
Health Policy and Financing
Grady C. Catterall, Howard J. Bolnick, Sally T. Burner, M. Kent Clemens, John Sheils
Session #48 PD
Medicare Reform
Michael Abroe, Michael Gale, Dennis J. Hutlet, Mark A Peterson, William Weller
Session #49 PD
The Actuary and Underwriting
Mark E. Billingsley, Dawn E. Helwig, Stephen K, Holland, Bernard Rabinowitz, Stephen Rowley, Gregg R. Sadler
Session #50 PD
Target Surplus and Reserves for Health Plans
John C. Lloyd, Daniel Pribe, John M. Stenson
Session #51 PD
Self–Funding of Health Benefit Programs
E. Jay Coldwell, Timothy J. Bowers, Gregory G. Demars, Rich Wipperfurth
Session #52 PD
Long–Term Care Lessons for Disability Insurers
Amy Pahl, Guy Bertsch
Session #53 PDLTC (Record Not Available)
Regulatory Update
Darrell D. Spell, John A. Hartnedy, Edward P. Mohoric
Session #54 PD
Building a Winning Culture
David C. Miller, David Duncan, Jim Toole
Session #55 PD (Record Not Available)
Retiree Medical Update
Anne M. Button, Bruce C. Dane, Lisa G. Ullman
Session #57 OF (Record Not Available)
Nontraditional Computer Science Roles for Actuaries
Brian S. Reid, Emil B. Kraft, Lyle S. Semchyshyn, Nancy Barker Walczak
Session #58 OF (Record Not Available)
HMO Reinsurance
Scott E. Guillemette, Mark Angard, Charles Crispin, Doug Dalrymple
Session #61 PD
Actuaries on the Asset Side
Gary J. Caine
Session #62 PD
Influencing Health Policy: Efforts and Impacts of the American Academy of Actuaries
Geoffrey C. Sandler, Janet M. Carstens, Craig Hanna, Cori Uccello
Session #63 PD (Record Not Available)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare + Choice Audits
Roger Schacht, Brenda Kyle, Gordon R. Trapnell
Session #64 PD
Predictive Modeling: Current Practices and Future Applications
R. Adams Dudley, Lori Weyuker
Session #65 OF (Record Not Available)
Risk Measurement and Management for Health Insurance
Thomas R. Corcoran, John W.C. Stark, James E. Drennan, Scott D. Haglund, Douglas W. Taylor
Session #66 WS (Record Not Available)
Multi–employer Pension Plans
Bruce C. Cable, James J. McKeogh
Session #67 PD (Record Not Available)
The Alphabet Soup of Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits
Bruce C. Cable, James J. McKeogh
Session #68 IF (Record Not Available)
"To Be or Not to Be" (in LTC)
James M. Glickman, Guy Bertsch, Matthew Cyril Fingerhut, Charles M. Waldron
Session #69 OF
Financial Economics: Impact on Small to Mid–Sized Pension Plans
Daniel P. Cassidy, Marcus A. Robertson
Lession #70 TS
Long–Term Disability Valuation Issues
G. Nicholas Smith, Delaine B. Hare, Eric Poirier
Session #71 WS (Record Not Available)
Issues and Trends in Small Group Medical Insurance
Shannon C. Krygiel, Thomas G. Butzen
Session #74 SM (Record Not Available)
Health Section Luncheon
Kara L. Clark
Session #77 PD
What's Happening Outside of Consumer–Driven Health Plans?
John R. Governale, Stephen J. Kaczmarek, Greg Thomas Russell, Edgar W. Schneider Jr.
Session #78 PD
Medicare Supplement Filings from a Regulator's Perspective
Dennis K. Hare, John A Hartnedy, Craig S. Kalman, Linda P. Ziegler
Session #79 PD (Record Not Available)
Premiums and Promises: An Investment Perspective
Mark D. Newton, Marco A. Bravo, Richard B. Pitbladdo, Larry H. Rubin
Session #80 PD (Record Not Available)
Plan Design
C. Ian Genno
Session #81 D
The Real Costs of Behavioral Health–Care Benefits
Marc Alan Lambright, Paul J. Floyd, Stephen P. Melek, Ted Wirecki
Session #82
Late–Breaking Regulatory Developments
Donald J. Segal, Ethan E. Kra
Session #83 OF
Individual Disability Morbidity Trends
Robert W. Beal, Douglas W. Taylor, Paul George Ziobrowski
Session #84 TS
2005 Education System Redesign
Rohana S. Ambagaspitiya, Dale H. Yamamoto
Session #85 TS
Valuation Issues for Statements of Actuarial Opinion
Thomas D. Snook, Rowen B. Bell, Robert H. Dobson, John F. Fritz
Session #86 WS (Record Not Available)
Issues and Trends in Individual Medical Insurance
Bernard Rabinowitz, Rod E. Turner
Session #89 SM (Record Not Available)
Joint Health/Pension Section Reception
Karl G. Volkmar
Session #91 SM (Record Not Available)
Health Section Council Hot Breakfast
Karl G. Volkmar
Session #94 PD
Merger and Acquisition Issues Specific to Group Life and Health Products
Thomas R. Corcoran, Rajeev Maxwell Dutt, Jim Toole
Session #95 PD
What's Happening with Consumer–Driven Health Plans (CDHPs)?
Lori Weyuker, Emma Hoo, Neal Oktavec, Scott Weltz
Session #96 PD
Prescription Drug Update
Kevin M. Dolsky, Terri Bernacchi, Margaret Wood Wear
Session #97 PD
Actuarial Techniques Surrounding Innovative LTC Benefits
Robert K. Yee, Deborah A. Grant, Timothy Edwin Hale, Andrew J. Herman
Session #98 IF (Record Not Available)
Phased Retirement
Anne M. Button, Valerie A. Paganelli
Session #99 PD (Record Not Available)
Professional Behavior and the Liabilities They Create
Thomas C. Griffin, S. Aquil Ahmed
Session #100 L
Dental Insurance: New Products and Emerging Issues
Floyd Ray Martin, Howard L. Bailit, James J. Crall
Session # 103 OF (Record Not Available)
Group Disability Open Forum
Scott D. Haglund, Karen L. Gervasoni, Richard Carlson Leavitt, William A. Obert, Stephen J. Rulis, Kristyn Skibisky
Session #106 PD
Medicare Prescription Drugs
Janet M. Carstens, Corey N. Berger, Brian Glassman, Ted Marmor
Session #107 PD
Morbidity Improvement and ITS Impact on LTC Insurance Pricing and Valuation
P.J. Eric Stallard, Scott Weltz, Ronald M. Wolf
Session #108 PD (Record Not Available)
New Retirement Risk Survey
Emily Kessler, Raymond D. Berry
Session #109 PD
Risk Management for Pension Plans
Arthur L. Conat, Joseph Bellersen, Julie Ann Curtis, Peter Michaels
Session #110 D
A Single–Payer Health Care System for the United States
Bryan F. Miller, Hobson D. Carroll, Don R. McCanne
Session #111 OF
Measurement of ROI/Effectiveness of Medical Management Processes
Ian G. Duncan, Robert N. Parke, Jaan Sidorov
Session #112 WS (Record Not Available)
What's Happening with Consumer–Driven Health Plans (CDHPS)? (Follow-up to 95PD)
Lori Weyuker, Emma Hoo, Neal Oktavec
Session #115 PPA (Record Not Available)
Multi–disciplinary Exploration of Prescription Drug Issues Symposium
Louise H. Anderson, Alan Cassels, Bela Patel Gorman, Dennis Kunimura, Pamela Landsman, Marjorie A. Rosenberg, Jill Van Den Bos, John R. Watkins