2009 Health Spring Meeting

Below you will find handouts from various sessions at the SOA 2009 Health Spring Meeting, held June 8–10, in Toronto, ON. Please note that some sessions have multiple handouts from different authors/presenters and that some handouts are not available for certain sessions.

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• 1 MPD Continental Breakfast and Book Review
  Jeffrey M. Stock, FSA, MAAA
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• 3 PD E–prescribing
  Susan Elizabeth Pantely, FSA, MAAA; Kate Berry, MPP; Kim Caldwell, RPh; Joel I. Shalowitz, MD, MBA, FACP
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• 4 WS Consumer Driven Health Plans
  Jean–Francois Beaule, FSA, MAAA; Amy R. Wilson, Ph.D.; David M. Tuomala, FSA, MAAA, FCA
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• 5 PD Public Sector Disability Plans
  Daniel D. Skwire, FSA, MAAA; Mark D. Schwisow, FSA, MAAA
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• 6 PD Market Opportunities for Private Clinics/Health Insurance in Canada
  Claude Ferguson, FSA, FCIA; J. D. Have, FSA, FCIA; Brian Day, MD
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• 7 PD Medicare and Medicare Advantage Updates
  Daniel W. Bailey, FSA, MAAA; Brent Lee Greenwood, ASA, MAAA; Dennis J. Hulet, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Julia S. Lambert, FSA, MAAA
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• 8 PD Medical Tourism
  Jennifer L. Gillespie, FSA, MAAA; Douglas W. Andrews, FSA, FCIA; Alison Jodi Saifer, FSA, MAAA; Donald W. Van Dyke
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• 9 PD Health Reinsurance–a Subsiding Need or a New Turn?
  Lina S. Cheung, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Paul Broughton; Samantha E. Engel, ASA, MAAA; David C. Fry, FSA, MAAA; Domingo Joaquin, Ph.D.; Tony Plampton; Eugene T. Wilkinson  Purchase Audio
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• 10 PD Revisions to NAIC Actuarial Opinion Standards
  Shari A. Westerfield, FSA, MAAA; Matthew P. Chamblee, FSA, MAAA, CERA; Alan R. Furan, FSA, MAAA
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• 13 PD Value Based Purchasing
  Greger J. Vigen, FSA, MAAA; David Hom
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• 14 PD Disease Management–The Next Generation
  Paulette Grausnick, ASA, MAAA; Ian G. Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA; Patrick Herson, MD
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• 15 PD Ins and Outs of Out of Canada Coverage for Canadians
  Pierre Saddik, FSA, FCIA
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• 16 IF Public Programs–Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP
  Daniel W. Bailey, FSA, MAAA; Timothy P. Rice, ASA, MAAA; Nicholas J. M. Simmons, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA
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• 17 PD Claim Payment issues–what you should know
  David Ermer; David McSweeney; Joel Slackman
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• 18 TS Understanding the RAND COMPARE Microsimulation Model
  John M. Bertko, FSA, MAAA; Federico Girosi, Ph.D
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• 19 PD Implications of the Current Market on Your Role as an Actuary (Health)
  Jennifer L. Gillespie, FSA, MAAA; David V. Axene, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Joan C. Barrett, FSA, MAAA
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• 20 PD Voluntary Worksite Products
  Jeffrey D. Koll, FSA, MAAA; James A. Wiseman, FSA, MAAA
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• 22 PD Current reform initiatives (State & Fed)
  Karen Bender, ASA, MAAA, FCA; Catherine M. Murphy-Barron, FSA, MAAA; Craig R. Springfield; Rod Turner, FSA, MAAA
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• 23 PD Predictive Modeling Hybrids Gaining Increased Mileage
  Vincent Michael Kane, FSA, MAAA; Ian G. Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA; Robert Bachler, FSA, MAAA, FCAS; Howard Brill, Ph.D
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• 24 TS Advanced Topics in Disability Valuation Richard
  Carlson Leavitt, ASA, MAAA
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• 25 PD Post–retirement Benefits–Current Issues in Canada
  Christiane Bourassa, FSA, FCIA; Gary E. Stoller, FSA, FCIA
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• 26 PD Consumerism & Transparency–Cost & Quality Info for Consumers
  Robert Gordon Cosway, FSA, MAAA; Edward Jhu, FSA, MAAA, EA; Natasha Rosenblatt, MPH
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• 27 TS Medicare Advantage: Revenue Payments + Part D Accounting
  Judah Z. Rabinowitz, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Brian M. Collender, FSA, MAAA
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• 29 BG Hot Topics in Smaller Insurance Companies
  David M. Dillon, FSA, MAAA; David C. Fry, FSA, MAAA; Rex L. Critzer, FSA, MAAA
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• 31 Health Disability Special Interest Group Hot Breakfast
  Daniel D. Skwire, FSA, MAAA; Mark S. Seliber, FSA, MAAA; Robert B. Hardin, FSA, MAAA, FCA
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• 32 Hot Breakfast–Public Medicare Management and Strategic Decisionmaking in Canada
  J. D. Have, FSA, FCIA; John Abbott; Shirley Hawkins
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• 33 Technology Section Hot Breakfast
  Frank G. Reynolds, FSA, FCIA, EA, MAAA
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• 34 Education and Research Continental Breakfast
  Emily K. Kessler, FSA, EA, MAAA, FCA; Marjorie A. Rosenberg, FSA, MAAA
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• 36 PD Quality & Efficiency I–Overview of the Space
  Ian G. Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA; Sheryl Coughlin, Ph.D.; Kara L. Clark, FSA, MAAA; Greger J. Vigen, FSA, MAAA
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• 37 PD Disability Experience in the U.S. and Canada
  Douglas W. Taylor, FSA, MAAA; Denis M. J. Garand, FSA, FCIA; Charles Tremblay
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• 38 PD The Uninsured–Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  Jonathan Mark Hendrickson, FSA, MAAA; John K. Ahrens, FSA, MAAA; Mark David Berquist, FSA, MAAA; Marc Lambright, FSA,MAAA
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• 39 TS Medicare Supplement update
  Sudha Shenoy, FSA, MAAA, CERA; Gail M. Lawrence, FSA, MAAA; Marianne Miller, MA
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• 40 PD IASB Insurance Contracts Project: Impact on Health Insurers
  Rowen B. Bell, FSA, MAAA; Elina Ryabtseva, FSA, MAAA; Mark R. Yoest, FSA, MAAA
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• 41 OF What you should know about underwriting (but don't)
  Jay Kenneth Severa, FSA, MAAA; Peter Roverud
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• 43 IF How To Become More Influential in Business–The Most Critical Ingredient
  David C. Miller, MSCC, CPCC, PCC
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• 44 PD Update in Employer Stop Loss Insurance Model
  Russel Hugh, FSA, MAAA; Shaun L. Peterson, FSA, MAAA; Brian Dale Shively, FSA, MAAA; Gregory J. Sullivan, FSA, MAAA
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• 45 PD Quality & Efficiency II–Government Sponsored Research & Initiatives
  Jim Toole, FSA, MAAA; Steve E. Phurrough, MD, MPA; Indra Pulcins, MD
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• 46 PD Comparative Health Systems–What Can We Learn from Other Nations?
  John M. Bertko, FSA, MAAA; Ian G. Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA; Emile Johann Stipp
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• 47 PD Healthcare Unplugged: Impact Trends–What You Need To Do
  Lindsay Resnick
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• 48 PD Legal Issues for Disability Insurance
  Vincent A. DeMarco, FSA, MAAA; Margaret Donavan, FSA, MAAA
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• 49 IF Dental Challenges–Revealed & Addressed
  Kelly J. Wieseler, FSA, MAAA; Lance A. Dayton, FSA; Steven J. Stender, FSA, MAAA
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• 50 PD The Current State of Health ERM
  Steven C. Siegel, ASA, MAAA; Catherine E. Gobes, ASA, MAAA; Max J. Rudolph, FSA, MAAA, CERA
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• 51 IF A Game of Inches
  Edward C. Cymerys, FSA, MAAA; Olga T. Jacobs, FSA, MAAA; Paul Joseph Knepp, ASA, MAAA
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• 52 Overtreated: The Broken Economics of U.S. Health Care
  Shannon Brownlee
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• 54 PD Quality & Efficiency III–Presentation of Papers
  Steven C. Siegel, ASA, MAAA; David V. Axene, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Stephen P. Melek, FSA, MAAA; Nicholas J. Yphantides, MD
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• 55 PD Trend I–Historical & Recent Medical & Rx Trends
  Stephen M. Poor, ASA, MAAA; T. Scott Bentley, FSA, MAAA; Johnathan D. Chernick, FSA, MAAA; Greta Redmond, FSA, MAAA
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• 56 IF How Health Care is Delivered–The Births of a Nation
  Daniel W. Bailey, FSA, MAAA; Debbie Moorhead, RN; Joseph A. Walsh, MD
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• 57 PD The Actuary & Provider Contracting
  Patrick Holland; Todd W. Lueders, FSA, MAAA; Ross A. Winkelman, FSA, MAAA
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• 58 WS Small Group Medical Market Watch
  William R. Lane, FSA, MAAA; Thomas Jacob Leibowitz, FSA, MAAA
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• 59 WS Small Group Medical Market Watch
  Karen Bender, ASA, MAAA, FCA; Boris Shekhter, FSA, MAAA
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• 60 PD IAAHS–International Disability Actuarial Issues
  Edward B. McEllin, FSA, MAAA; Benoit G. Miclette, FSA, FCIA; Emile Johann Stipp
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• 61 PD Overlap Between LTC, Medicare & Medicaid
  Gail Holubinka; David F. Ogden, FSA, MAAA
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• 62 WS Entering a New Line of Business
  Gregory G. Fann, FSA, MAAA; David M. Tuomala, FSA, MAAA, FCA
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• 63 WS Quality & Efficiency IV–Establishing & Evaluating Quality Programs
  Joan C. Barrett, FSA, MAAA; Kara L. Clark, FSA, MAAA
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• 64 PD LTC & Disability Insurance: Learning from Past Experience
  Robert W. Beal, FSA, MAAA; Dawn E. Helwig, FSA, MAAA
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• 65 PD Retiree Medical updates
  Timothy W. Clarke, FSA, FCIA; Dale H. Yamamoto, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA
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• 66 PD IAAHS–Critical Illness
  Alex Zeid, ASA, MAAA; Edward B. McEllin, FSA, MAAA; Darrell D. Spell, FSA, MAAA
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• 67 PD MCEV for Health Insurance
  Dominique Lebel, FSA, MAAA, FCIA; Nicholas John Ranson, FSA, FIA, FIAA, MAAA
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• 68 PD Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
  Meg Weber; S. Michael McLaughlin, FSA, FIA, MAAA, CERA; Alice Rosenblatt, FSA, MAAA
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• 69 PD The Code of Professional Conduct
  Curtis E. Huntington, FSA, MAAA, FCA
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• 71 Health Section Hot Breakfast
  Paul Fronstin
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• 73 PD Trend II–Future Trend Drives and Methods to Monitor & Control Trend
  Alan Mills, FSA, MAAA; Stacey Muller, FSA, MAAA
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• 74 PD Updates on Experience Under Pay–for–Performance Models
  Sudha Shenoy, FSA, MAAA, CERA; Randall Krakauer, MD; John J. Lynch, FSA, MAAA; Edison Machado Jr., MD, MBA
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• 75 PD The New Mental Health Parity Law
  Grady C. Catterall, FSA, MAAA; Andrea Bykerk Christopherson, FSA, MAAA; Stephen P. Melek, FSA, MAAA
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• 76 PD Health Outcomes: The Use of Electronic Medical Records in the ID and Management of Patients with Diabetes
  Grace Flood, MD; Bruce S. Pyenson, FSA, MAAA; Marjorie Rosenberg, Ph.D., FSA, MAAA
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• 77 WS Medicare Advantage/PDP Workshop
  Patrick J. Dunks, FSA, MAAA;
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• 78 WS The Art of Reserving–Workshop
  Darrell D. Knapp, FSA, MAAA; Mark Martin Zanecki, ASA, MAAA
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• 79 PD Rx Trends–Specialty Pharmaceuticals
  Sara Wiese Goldberg, FSA, MAAA; Troy Michael Filipek, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Joel I. Shalowitz, MD, MBA, FACP
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• 81 PD Pricing Issues
  Paul Thomas Lupica, FSA, MAAA; Jill Van Den Bos; Michael E. Weilant, FSA, MAAA
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• 82 PD The Latest Word on Healthcare Reform
  David M. Dillon, FSA, MAAA; Paul Fronstin
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• 83 IF Individual Medical Market Watch
  James E. Oatman, FSA, MAAA
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• 84 IF Individual Medical Market Watch
  T. Scott Bentley, FSA, MAAA; Bruce T. Campbell, FSA, MAAA
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• 85 IF Individual Medical Market Watch
  James T. O'Connor, FSA, MAAA
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• 86 PD Beyond Disability: CI, LTC, and Group Life
  Peter A. Heinrichs, FSA, MAAA; Thomas R. Corcoran, FSA, MAAA, CERA; Joel S. Cornberg, FSA, MAAA, FCIA;   Purchase Audio
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• 88 PD Data Mining and Patient Specific Information
  Frank G. Reynolds, FSA, FCIA, EA, MAAA; Jim Del Vecchio; Chrysanne DiMarco, Ph.D
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• 89 PD US Qualification Standards
  Sara Corrough Teppema, FSA, MAAA, FCA; Dale H. Yamamoto, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA
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