2006 Hollywood Health Spring Meeting

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in Hollywood, FL held in June of 2006. Please note that some may have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters.

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• Session #1 GS Could U.S. Hospitals Go The Way Of U.S. Airlines? Keynote Speaker—Richard Anderson
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• Session #3 L Health Policy: How is it Made?
  Kara L. Clark, Beaufort B. Longest, Jr.
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• Session #4 PD Specialty Pharmaceuticals—the Newest Frontier in Drug Management
  Thoedore J. Nime, Steven D. Berna, William Crown, Cathy Gibson
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• Session #5 Seminar Provider Contracting Seminar Part 1: Contract Renegotiations—Can Everyone Get what They Want?
  Craig S. Kalman, Greg Burgess, Jodie L. Hansen, Jugna Shah, Joel Shalowitz, Harry L. Sutton
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• Session #6 PD The Basics of Long-Term Care
  Robert K. Yee, Andrew J. Herman, Sandra Latham
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• Session #7 OF Voluntary Worksite Life Products
  Thomas R. Corcoran, Bonnie Brazzell, Jeffrey D. Koll
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• Session #8 OF The Impact of External Factors on Disability Insurance
  Daniel D. Skwire, Richard Noel Ferree, Dennis Yu
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• Session #9 WS Using Acting Techniques to Improve Your Presentation Skills
  Ian G. Duncan, David Ferrie
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• Session #12 PD Prescription Drug Update
  Geoffrey C. Sandler, Steven D. Berna, Cathy Gibson, David Veschi
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• Session #13 PD Predictive Modeling—Lessons Learned
  Karen Fitzner, Jim Minnich, William C. Vennart
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• Session #14 PD Disease Management Topics
  O'Shea Gamble, Don Fetterolf, Allan Khoury
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• Session #15 PD Long-Term Care Industry Snapshot
  Robert K. Yee, Theresa W. Bourdon, Andrew J. Herman, Sandra Latham
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• Session #16 PD Government Program Reinsurance Market Update
  Patrick L. Collins, Ian G. Duncan, Peter Robinson, Brian Dale Shively
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• Session #17 TS Claim Distribution Tables
  Charles S. Fuhrer
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• Session #18 OF Group Life Experience Committee Update
  Susan R. Sames
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• Session #19 Seminar Medicare Seminar Part 1: MMA—One Year Later
  Daniel W. Bailey, Patrick J. Dunks, Peter Frank
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• Session #22 GS General Luncheon and Keynote
  Don Fetterolf
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• Session #24 PD Alternative Underwriting—A New Concept in Health Insurance Risk Appraisal
  Allen M. Klein, Chris E. Stehno
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• Session #25 I/OF Personal Actuaries on Parade
  Teresa Russ Winer, Janet G. Deskins, Paul T. Richmond
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• Session #26 PD Limited Benefit Medical—Product Design and Marketing
  William R. Lane, Warren M. Cohen, James T. O'Connor
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• Session #27PD Comparing Various Nations' Health Systems—Successes and Failures
  Lisa F. Tourville, Jay P. Boekhoff, Sadhna Paralkar
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• Session #28 PD Catastrophe Risk in Disability and Group Life Insurance
  Alexander D. Marek, David G. Fitzpatrick, Tracy Stoltz
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• Session #29 PD Catastrophic Medical Claim Trends
  Daniel L. Wolak, Merry Gann, Boris Garcia-Zakzuk, Michael E. Rieth
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• Session #30 Seminar Medicare Seminar Part 2: Bid Audits—Reviewing Medicare Advantage and PDP Bids
  Roger T. Schacht, JoAnn Bogolin, Donna C. Novak
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• Session #31 Seminar Provider Contracting Seminar Part 2:Metrics—Is Everyone Using the Same Yardstick?
  Craig S. Kalman, Greg Burgess, Jodie L. Hansen, Jugna Shah, Joel Shalowitz, Harry L. Sutton
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• Session #34 PD State-run, High Risk/High Cost Health Reinsurance Pools—Do They Work?
  James T. O'Connor, Marjorie Ellis, Earl L. Hoffman, Thomas D. Snook
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• Session #35 PD Integrating Health and Productivity Management Strategies
  Neil S. Austin, Stephen P. Melek
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• Session #37 PD Stochastic Modeling in Disability and Long-Term Care
  Amy Pahl, Edward B. McEllin
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• Session #38A WS Small Group Medical—Current Issues
  Daniel W. Bailey, John A. Dwyer
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• Session #38B WS Small Group Medical— Current Issues
  Bernon R. Erickson, Jr., William R. Lane
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• Session #39 Seminar Medicare Seminar Part 3: Update on CMS Prescription Drug Plans
  Stephen J. Kaczmarek, Corey N. Berger, Dale H. Yamamoto
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• Session #40 Seminar Provider Contracting Seminar Part 3: Outside Impacts: Will you be affected, too?
  Craig S. Kalman, Greg Burgess, Jodie L. Hansen, Jugna Shah, Joel Shalowitz, Harry L. Sutton
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• Session #42 SM Education and Research Section Continental Breakfast
  Ian G. Duncan
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• Session #43 SM Disability Special Interest Group Hot Breakfast Daniel D. Skwire, Robert W. Beal
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• Session #46 PD Competitive Threats to Actuaries of the Future From Non-Actuaries
  Sudha Shenoy, Joel Albizo, David S. Duncan, Margaret Resce Milkint
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• Session #47 PD Entry Into the China Group Insurance and Health Insurance Markets for Foreign Companies
  David K. Li , Andrew B. Wang
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• Session #48 PD Risk Management for Individual Products
  Thomas R. Corcoran, James E. Oatman, Douglas W. Taylor, Robert K. Yee
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• Session #49 PD IT Investment—Actuaries as Stakeholders
  Van Beach, Lisa Fox, Jonathan E. Trend
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• Session #50 BG Health Product Opportunities for Smaller Insurance Companies
  Norman E. Hill, Andrea C. Polischuk, Anthony G. Proulx, Arthur J. Verney
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• Session #51 IF Coaching for Performance
  John West Hadley, David C. Miller
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• Session #52 OF Peer Review—How It Can Help You
  Geoffrey C. Sandler, William C. Cutlip, Thomas J. Stoiber
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• Session #53 TS Introduction to Research Methods
  Ian G. Duncan, Karen Fitzner
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• Session #56 PD Trend Analysis—New Developments Impacting the Way We Analyze Trend
  Bradley J. Scott, Theresa Shouldis Bauer, Alan R. Gard, Ian G. Duncan
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• Session #57 WS Disability Insurance Underwriting Roundtable
  Warren M. Cohen, Vincent A. DeMarco
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• Session #58 PD Medical Management—We're Actuaries—Should We Care?
  John W. C. Stark, David V. Axene, Sadhna Paralkar
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• Session #59 Seminar Health Valuation Seminar Part 1: Practical Aspects in Developing Unpaid Claims Liability Estimates
  John C. Lloyd, Darrell D. Knapp, Jed L. Linfield
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• Session #60 Seminar Health Enterprise Risk Management Seminar Part 1
  Kara L. Clark, Rajeev Maxwell Dutt, Trevor Pollitt, Sudha Shenoy, Ross A. Winkelman
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• Session #63 GS General Luncheon: Pandemics and Business Preparedness
  Dr. Michael T. Osterholm
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• Session #65 OF Follow up to Luncheon Keynote
  Dr. Michael T. Osterholm
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• Session #66 PD The Impact of Case Size on Disability Insurance
  Richard Carlson Leavitt, Matthew R. Desfosses, Frederick J. Flores
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• Session #68 WS Trends in Dental Insurance
  Herschel Reich
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• Session #69 PD Supplemental Health Coverage Update
  Darrell D. Spell, Stacey Sanders Hunter, Floyd Ray Martin
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• Session #70 Seminar Health Valuation Seminar Part 2: Health and Long-Term Care Regulatory Update
  Rowen B. Bell, James T. O'Connor, Amy Pahl
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• Session #71 Seminar Health Enterprise Risk Management Seminar Part 2
  John W. C. Stark, Ellen Peters
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• Session #75 PD Pandemics and other Extreme Events: Is the Industry Ready?
  Jim Toole, Scott E. Guillemette, Max J. Rudolph
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• Session #76 PD Stop Loss—Current Market Trends
  Gordon Russel Hugh, Chris W. Christofilis, Alison J. Saifer
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• Session #77 Seminar Health Valuation Seminar Part 3: Valuation Issues in Individual A&H, Medicare Supplement and Long-Term Care Policies
  Larry Pfannerstill, Steven W. Schoonveld, Norman J. Zwitter
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• Session #78 Seminar Health Enterprise Risk Management Seminar Part 3
  Kara L. Clark, Rajeev Maxwell Dutt, Trevor Pollitt, Sudha Shenoy, John W. C. Stark
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• Session #80 SM Health Section Council Hot Breakfast
  William R. Lane
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• Session #81 PD New Developments in Small Group Underwriting
  Ian G. Duncan, Francois Millard, Bill O'Brien, Chris Stehno
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• Session #82 PD Rating Agencies—What are They Thinking?
  Mark E. Billingsley, Kenneth A. Frino, Peter Patrino, Shellie Stoddard
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• Session #83 PD The Impact of Hurricanes and Other Catastrophic Events—Are You Ready?
  Joel C. Kabala, Brian G. Small, Korey Landry
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• Session #84 PD Consumer Driven Health Plans—The Current State of Affairs
  Stuart D. Rachlin, John Price, Ian B. Stark, David M. Tuomala
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• Session #85 TS Policy Reserve Issues for Disabaility Insurance
  Robert W. Beal, Timothy P. Swankey, Douglas W. Taylor
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• Session #86 WS Individual Medical Insurance—Current Market Trends
  Jeffrey D. Miller, Rod E. Turner
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• Session #90 PD Future of Benefit Design
  Jim Toole, Michelle Baade, Chris E. Stehno
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• Session #91 PD Health Care and Information Technology: Looking Behind the Wizard's Curtain
  John Sardelis, Dan Dunn, Steve Epstein, Craig J. Johns
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• Session #92 BG The Impact of Hurricanes and Other Catastrophic Events—Are You Ready?
  Joel C. Kabala, John W. C. Stark
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• Session #93 IF Shopping for Tires, Shoes and Healthcare
  Kara L. Clark, Barbara O. Johnson, Neil Rolland
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