2002 San Francisco Health Spring Meeting Handouts

Presentations

2002 San Francisco Health Spring Meeting

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Spring Health Meeting in San Francisco, CA held on June 24–26, 2002. Please note that some may have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.

Session #1 GS (Handout Not Available)
General Session
Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers
Session #3 PD
The Marketing Actuary
Steven E. Konnath, Jeffrey D. Miller, Sudha Shenoy, Timothy J. Tongson
Session #4 PD
Health Care Cost Trends Post–September 11, 2001
Jeffrey G. Allen, Karl Madrecki, Dean A. Taylor, Lisa F. Tourville
Session #5 PD
Medicare Reform
Kevin D. Rease, Michael James Thompson, Cori E. Uccello
Session #7 PD
Pension Plan Terminations
Christopher R. Barr, David W. Greene, Victor Modugno, Timothy Veal
Session #8 PD
Managing Actuarial Students 101
Gary Blank, Kenneth K. Lau, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo
Session #9 PD
Pension Resources on the Internet
Barton G. Fleming, John F. Kalnberg, John Riley
Session #10 PD
Multiemployer Plan Negotiations–Part 1 of Pension Negotiation Seminar
Paul Angelo, William A. Sokol, Martin Stempel
Session #11 L
Data Mining Techniques in Actuarial Modeling
Lijia Guo
Session #12 OF
The Dental and Vision Market
Lee Harris, Don Junt, Floyd R. Martin
Session #13 OF
Voluntary Group Disability Products
Michael J. Fish, John D. Ladley, Howard L. Rosen
Session #14 OF
Valuation Issues for Long–Term Care Insurance
Michael J. Francescone, Abraham S. Gootzeit, John K. Heins, Mark E. Litow
Session #15 TS
Public Databases and Other Resources for Health Actuaries
Grady C. Catterall, Denise Love, Timothy K. Robinson
Session #16 WS
Group Life Trends and Issues
Karen J. Edgerton, Susan R. Sames
Session #19 GS (Handout Not Available)
General Luncheon
William "Skip" Tucker
Session #21 D
The War Exclusion: Reinsurance on Trial
John Aprill, Gail Goering, Ronald L. Klein, Paul M. Skrtich
Session #24 PD
Integrating Cost, Efficiency and Quality Data into Provider Reimbursement a | b
Ralph D. Alexander, John P. Cookson
Session #25 PD
CMS: A Rose by Any Other Name is Spelled HCFA
Thomas Barker, Janet M. Carstens, A. Kirk Twiss, Stephen P. Wood
Session #26 PD
Prescription Drug Update
Grady C. Catterall, Mark J. Franzen, Jill Van Den Bos, Margaret Wood Wear
Session #27 PD
Worksite Health Products: Keys to Successful Programs
Michael J. Fish, Norman E. Hill, Darrell D. Spell, Daniel Edward Winslow
Session #28 PD
Establishing Specialty Care Operations Internationally
Eduardo Lara di Lauro, Froylan Puente, Wendy Alonso
Session #29 PD
Public Plans Negotiations–Part 2 of Pension Negotiation Seminar
Paul Angelo, John E. Bartel, Robert A. Blum
Session #30 IF
Future Implications of Current Plan Design Changes–Back to the Future
George W. McCauslan, Joel B. Sitrin
Session #31 IF
American Academy of Actuaries Practice Note on Long– Term Care Insurance Pricing
Dennis M. O’Brien, P.J. Eric Stallard, William C. Weller, Robert K. W. Yee
Session #32 IF
Data Quality
John D. Fleming, Brian S. Reid, Timothy P. Swanky
Session #33 OF
The Impact of Economic and External Trends on Disability Insurance
LJames Dompkowski, Richard Carlson Leavitt, Foon Wei Lew, Allen D. Livingood
Session #34 WS (Handout Not Available)
How to Build Communication Skills Through Improvisation
Bob Morand
Session #35 WS (Handout Not Available)
Issues and Trends in Individual Medical Insurance
Thomas J. Stoiber
Session #36 WS (Handout Not Available)
Effective Negotiation Strategies for Actuaries
Michael M. Braunstein, William "Skip" Tucker
Session #39 PD
The Merging of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Genetic Algorithms
Richard A. Derrig, Arnold F. Shapiro
Session #40 PD
Risk-Based Capital for Health Entities
Rowen B. Bell, John C. Lloyd, Donna C. Novak
Session #41 PD
Provider Excess Stop–Loss
Richard Berve, Charles Crispin, Catherine M. Murphy-Barron, Timothy P. Rice
Session #42 PD
Show Me the Utility: Practical Applications of Credibility
Charles S. Fuhrer, Thomas Jacob Leibowitz
Session #43 PD
CFA Actuaries
Anson J. "Jay" Glacy Jr., Barry S. McInerney, Mani Sabapathi
Session #44 PD
Defined Contribution Health Plans
Philip J. Barackman, Andrew J. Herman, P. J. Eric Stallard, John Leo Timmerberg
Session #45 PD
Mentoring Professional Development
Janet M. Carstens, Kevin J. Shand
Session #46 PD
Actuarial Issues–Part 3 of Pension Negotiation Seminar
Paul Angelo, Steven A. Brannon, Robert T. McCrory, Ira M. Summer
Session #47 OF
Overview of Critical Illness Insurance
Michelle Gornowicz Dyke, Jean–Marc Fix, Loretta J. Jacobs, Eddy Levy, Michael L. Rasmussen
Session #48 TS
Innovations in Hospital Reimbursement Methodologies a ¦ b
William J. Fox
Session #49 WS
Group Disability Research Results and Discussion Group
Thomas R. Corcoran, Michael D. Lachance, Charles H. Maintel, Stacy Varney
Session #52 SM
Education and Research Continental Breakfast
Curtis E. Huntington, Stuart Klugman, Jeanne E. Swanson
Session #53 SM (Handout Not Available)
Disability Special Interest Group Hot Breakfast
Vincent A. DeMarco, Daniel D. Skwire
Session #56 PD
The Classical PB&J (A.K.A. Into to Perl, Visual Basic, and Java)
Joseph Alaimo, Gary S. Copenhaver a ¦ b
Session #57 PD
Managing a Successful University Actuarial Program
Arnold F. Shapiro, Michael Sherris, Aaron Tenenbein
Session #58 PD
Defined Contribution Health Plans
Beth K. Grice, Penny R. Hahn, Lindsay Resnick, David M. Tuomola
Session #59 PD
New Paradigms of Provider and Network Management
Dennis J. Hulet, Jay C. Ripps, Thomas D. Snook, John M. Wray
Session #60 PD
Carriers’ Choice on Medicare + Choice: Its Future Viability
John M. Bertko, Robert Gordon Cosway, John F. Fritz, Clare M. McFarland
Session #61 PD
Downturn Consulting and Asset/Liability Management for Pensions
Christopher R. Barr, Eric Boyd Feinstein
Session #62 PD
Managing Lump Sum Retirement Benefits a ¦ b
Judith Mazo, Rebecca J. Miller, Ronnie Susan Thierman
Session #63 PD
Current Trends in Demographic Assumptions
John F. Kalnberg, Marilyn Miller Oliver, Barthus J. Prien
Session #64 PD
RIDFC Symposium–Opening Panel: Critical Issues Facing Our Retirement Income System
Laurel E. Beedon, Robert L. Clark, Cindy Hounsell, Anna Rappaport, Patricia L. Scahill
Session #65 TS
Appraisals of Long-Term Disability and Life Wavier Blocks
Peter A. Heinrichs, Daniel D. Skwire
Session #66 TS
A Re-Engineering Imperative: Understandable, Sustainable and Repeatable Performance Involvement
Dominic Bosque, Lori Ann Stevens
Session #67 WS (Handout Not Available)
Hot Topics in Large Group Insurance
Richard C. Rash
Session #68 WS (Handout Not Available)
American Academy of Actuaries Practice Note on Long–Term Care Insurance Pricing
William Carroll, Daniel Bret Cathcart, Timothy Edwin Hale, Dennis M. O'Brien, P.J. Eric Stallard, William C. Weller, Robert K. W. Yee
Session #71 PD
Hot Technologies
Joseph Alaimo, Richard A. Derrig, William Fred Farris, Mark A. Tillman
Session #72 PD
Managing the Overinsurance Risk for Disability Insurance
Andronico Lucas Castillo, Anne G. Mitchell, Howard L. Rosen, Mark D. Schwisow
Session #73 PD (Handout Not Available)
The New Reality–The Proposed QRA Designation
Samuel H. Cox, Stuart Klugman, W. James MacGinnitie
Session #75 IF
Group Long–Term Care Reaches Adolescence
Guy W. Bertsch, Roger J. Gagne, Kurt J. F. Giesa, Peggy L. Hauser, Dawn E. Helwig
Session #76 PD
Settling the Dust On Smoothing the Assets a ¦ b
Paul Angelo, James E. Holland Jr.
Session #77 L (Handout Not Available)
Optimal Patterns of Annuity Payments
Claire Bilodeau, Moshe Ayre Milevsky
Session #78 OF
Staying on Course: Factors Driving the Pricing and Design of Today's Health Products
Darin W. Dalton, Christopher S. Girod, Brent Lee Greenwood, Mike Taylor
Session #79 OF
Trends in Large Claims
Patrick L. Collins, Thomas A. Doran, G. Russel Hugh, Timothy K. Robinson
Session #80 PP
Risk Adjusters Update
Robert Bruce Cumming, David J. Knutson
Session #81 TS
Availability and Use of Hospital Quality Indicators
Jeffrey Jamison Geppert, Richard A. Kipp, Denise Love
Session #82 TS
RIDFC Symposium–Families and Retirement Income Alternatives, Part 1 a ¦ b ¦ c
Jonathan Barry Forman, Catherine Hill, Beverly J. Orth, Neela K. Ranade, Anna M. Rappaport, Patricia L. Scahill, Manha Yau
Session #83 WS
Exploring a New Way to Think
Dominic Bosque, Lori Ann Stevens
Session #86 SM (Handout Not Available)
Health Section Luncheon
Kevin M. Dolsky, Brian Klepper
Session #87 SM
Investment and Pension Section Luncheon Relating Investment Experience to Benefit Changes in Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Alan D, Biller, Victor Modugno, Peter D. Tilley
Session #90 PD
The Corporate Actuary - Value in Many Different Roles
Eric Boyd Feinstein, Leslie A. McIntosh
Session #91 PD
Surplus Management for Health Entities
Phyllis A. Doran, Douglas B. Sherlock, Thomas D. Snook, Richard Swift
Session #92 PD
Evaluating Managed Care Networks
Steven J. Gaspar, Robert N. Parke
Session #93 PD
Short–Term Disability Benefits
Frederick J. Flores, Paul D. Hitchcox, Richard Carlson Leavitt, Barry J. Petruzzi
Session #94 PD
LTC Claims: High Tech or High Touch
Mark L. Braunstein, Ralph W. Kirk, Amy Pahl
Session #95 PD
Late-Breaking Developments
James E. Holland Jr., Ethan E. Kra, Donald J. Segal, Max J. Schwartz
Session #96 PD
Managing Employer Risk in Defined Contribution Plans
C. Ian Genno, Michael J. Methlie, Jeff Miller
Session #98 IF
Employer Stop-Loss Topics - One Year Later
Hobson D. Carroll, Raymond J. Marra, Michael R. McLean, Daniel L. Wolak
Session #99 OF
Predictive Modeling
Robert Bruce Cumming, Ian G. Duncan, Elizabeth V. Lewis, Mark D. Wernicke
Session #100 OF
Impact Of Patients’ Rights Initiatives
David V. Axene, Robert Lawszewski, James N. Roberts
Session #101 TS
Spitting on the President and Other Career Stallers a ¦ b
Rosellen Manfre, Lori Ann Stevens
Session #102 TS
RIDFC Symposium–Families And Retirement Income Alternatives, Part 2
Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, Karen Anderson Holden, Cindy Hounsell, Meeryoung Kim, Anna Rappaport
Session #105 TS
RIDFC Symposium–Challenge of an Aging Society: The Big Picture
Douglas W. Andrews, Robert L. Clark, Madeleine d'Ambrosio, Moshe Ayre Milevsky, Thorton (Tip) Parker a ¦ b, Lance Weiss
Session #107 SM (Handout Not Available)
Joint Health/Pension Section and RIDFC Symposium Reception
Paul Angelo, Daniel L. Wolak
Session 109 SM (Handout Not Available)
Health Section Council Hot Breakfast
John P. Cookson, Cynthia S. Miller, Geoffrey C. Sandler
Session #111 SM/BG
Roundtable Hot Breakfast Discussion–What Actuaries Learned at the LTCI Intercompany Conference
Philip J. Barackman, James C. Berger, Gary L. Corliss, James M. Glickman, Gregory A. Gurlik, Mark D. Newton, Andrew M. Perkins, Mark H. Press, Anthony G. Proulx, Courtney R. White
Session #115 PD
Outside Agencies’ Views of Health and Reinsurance Companies (Outside Looking In–How Are We Perceived)
Timothy W. Clark, Joe France, Dana Mehta, Cynthia S. Miller
Session #116 PD
The Future of Managed Care
David V. Axene, John M. Bertko, James P. Turner
Session #117 PD
Combination Disability Products: The Urge to Merge
Arthur J. "Tad" Verney
Session #118 PD
Interest Rates - Current Liability, Lump Sums, And Others
Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Jeremy Gold, Donald J. Segal
Session #119 PD
Non-Qualified Executive Compensation
David S. Hauptman, Max J. Schwartz, Sally Smedal
Session #120 IF
Medicare Supplement Update and Trends
Thomas Meyer Ahmann, David J. Bahn a ¦ b ¦ c, Bryan J. Curley, Peter G. Hendee
Session #121 IF
Innovations in Service and Clinical Quality Improvement: The Six Sigma Approach
David William Dickson a ¦ b, Jennifer De La Cruz, Robert Sutter
Session #122 IF
Creative Brainstorming a ¦ b
Michael M. Braunstein, Rosellen Manfre
Session #123 OF (Handout Not Available)
What's Up With ASOP 6?
Jeffrey P. Petertil, Dale H. Yamamoto
Session #124 TS
RIDFC Symposium–Using Modeling to Develop Solutions
Laurel E. Beedon, David H. Pattison, Lorrie L. Hoffman, Lijia Guo, Robert L. Brown, Melissa Favreault
Session #125 WS (Handout Not Available)
Issues and Trends in Small Group Medical Insurance
Patrick L. Collins, William R. Lane, Jeffrey D. Miller
Session #128 PD (Handout Not Available)
The Actuary Of 2010
Ken Hamik, Dorn H. Swerdlin
Session #129 PD
New Strategies in Disease and Utilization Management
Ron Geraty, Scott E. Guillemette, David Kaplan, Gordon Norman
Session #130 PD
Genetic Testing in Health Insurance
Richard A. Kipp, Stephanie Newhart, Thomas F. Wildsmith
Session #131 PD
E–Business, Healthcare, and Privacy
Lori Evans, Christopher Long, Evelyn Nedved Pendleton, Stuart D. Rachlin
Session #132 PD
Health Valuation Issues: Traditional Products
Leslie M. Jones, John C. Lloyd, Donna C. Novak, Norman J. Zwitter
Session #133 PD
Health Valuation Issues–Non–Traditional Health Products
John S. Cathcart, John I. Mange, David Wilson
Session #134 PD
Standards: The Latest and Greatest
Michael Blair Preston, Alan J. Stonewall
Session #135 IF
Dispelling Actuarial Myths
William D. Bush, C. Ian Genno, Jeremy Gold
Session 136 OF
Long-Term-Care Product and Pricing Trends
James C. Berger, Gregory A. Gurlik, Peggy L. Hauser
Session #137 PP
Aging Curves for Older Americans Presentation
Jeffrey P. Petertil, Dale H. Yamamoto
Session #138 TS
RIDFC Symposium–Perspectives on Phased Retirement
Linda Smith Brothers, Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, Denise M. Clark, David Rajnes, Neela K. Ranade
Session #141 IF
Health Valuation Issues: Lunch and Discussion Forum
Jeffrey G. Allen, John I. Mange, Martin E. Staehlin, Norman J. Zwitter
Session #143 TS
I. RIDFC Symposium–Employer Perspective and Issues (Handout Not Available)
Michael J. Blackburn, Sally Hass, David Manuszack, Anna Rappaport
II. RIDFC Symposium–Health and Long–Term–Care Issues
Robert L. Brown, Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, Ronnie Susan Thierman
III. RIDFC Symposium–Structure and Broad Systems Design
Judy Anderson, Joseph Applebaum, Chiu–Cheng Chang, Neela Ranade, Tapen Sinha, Aliya Wong


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