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.

• 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 </li>
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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
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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
• Session 78–Spreadsheet A
• Session 78–Spreadsheet B
• 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;
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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