2007 Seattle Health Spring Meeting

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Health Spring Meeting held on June 13-15, 2007 in Seattle, WA. Please note that some have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.

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• Session #1 Opening General Session
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• Session #3 Individual Medical Market Watch
  Craig Magnuson, Bernard Rabinowitz
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• Session #4 Provider Reimbursement Structures and Systems
  Scott Armstrong, Damian Birnstihl, Adam Ceteznik, Todd Lueders
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• Session #5 Valuation and Reserving Techniques
  Theresa Bourdon, Eric Smithback, Russell Willard
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• Session #6 Actuarial Support for Underwriting
  Jennifer Gillespie, Jim Minnich, Chris Stehno
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• Session #7 Medical Expense Trend Historical Drivers - What Can We Learn From The Past?
  John Cookson, Greta Redmond, Lisa Tourville, Mark Zanecki
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• Session #8 Emerging Career Opportunities for Actuaries
  Laura Bennett, Janet Deskins, Tim Essaye, James Johnson
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• Session #9 Hot Topics of Interest to Smaller Insurance Companies
  Sara Goldberg, Norman Hill, Andrew Perkins
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• Session #10 Effectively Explaining Results to Non-technical Audiences
  Michael Braunstein
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• Session #11 Group Life Insurance Workshop
  David Fitzpatrick, Robert Hardin
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• Session #13 General Luncheon
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• Session #15 Small Group Medical Market Watch
  Daniel Bailey, Thomas Leibowitz, Mark Shaw, Thomas Wortman
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• Session #16 Balancing Affordability & Provider Funding Needs
  Eric Boklage, Molly Loftus, Catherine Murphy-Barron
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• Session #17 Communication of Financial Results
  Darrell Knapp, Kent Marquardt, Terence Martin, Cynthia Miller
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• Session #18 Actuarial Support for Sales, Brokers, and Customers
  Jennifer Gillespie, Adam Hameed, Julia Lyng, Douglas McCann
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• Session #19 Self Promotion for Introverts - Part 1: The Inner Game
  Nancy Ancowitz, Ian Duncan
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• Session #20 The Worksite Disability Market
  Peter Heinrichs, Gabriel House, David Long
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• Session #21 Medical Expense Trend: Outlier Identification and Mitigation - How Do We Bend Trend?
  Scott French, Tom Messer, Lisa Tourville
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• Session #22 Principles Underlying Actuarial Science
  Stuart Klugman
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• Session #24 Employer Stop Loss Market Watch
  William Lane, Richard Nelson, Daniel Wolak
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• Session #25 Incentives for Desired Outcomes - Pay-for-Performance Programs
  Damian Birnstihl, Catherine Murphy-Barron, Sadhna Paralkar, Howard Underwood
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• Session #26 IASB and FASB Developments: Impact on Health Carriers
  Rowen Bell
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• Session #27 Self Promotion for Introverts - Part 2: Your Signature Presence
  Nancy Ancowitz, Meg Weber
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• Session #28 Disability Insurance and Enterprise Risk Management
  Jeff Babino, Derek Blum, Brian Fischer, Sally Manafi
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• Session #29 Medical Expense Trend: Future Drivers - What Can We Expect?
  Lisa Tourville, Nancy Walczak, Mark Zanecki
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• Session #30 Health Benefits-Fully Insured or Self-Funded
  Karen Bender, Lynn Brunner, Chandler Lincoln
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• Session #31 Update - Recent Tax Guidance for Health Insurers and Products
  Carl Friedrich, Craig Springfield
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• Session #33 Actuary of the Future Section Continental Breakfast
  Janet Deskins
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• Session #34 Education and Research Section Continental Breakfast
  Ian Duncan
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• Session #35 Health Disability Special Interest Group Hot Breakfast
  Robert Beal, Daniel Skwire
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• Session #37 Know Your Exposures - Scenario Planning To Manage Enterprise Risks
  Kara Clark, Mark Jamilkowski, Sudha Shenoy
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• Session #38 Transforming the Market Through Consumerism and Transparency
  Jodie Hansen, Amita Rastogi
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• Session #39 An Update on the Medicare Part D Implementation Process
  Christopher Carlson, David Driscoll, John Eggertsen, Beth Fritchen
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• Session #40 Designing a New Product
  Nancy Hubler, John Lloyd
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• Session #41 The Search for Entrepreneurial Actuaries - Part 1
  Sandra Coyne-Westerkamp, Ian Duncan
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• Session #42 International Developments in Disability Insurance
  Douw De Jongh, Susan Elliott, Yoriko Enokido, Daniel Skwire
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• Session #43 Introduction to Public Health
Bobbie Berkowitz, Jim Toole
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• Session #44 The Actuarial Standards Board and ASOPS
  Cecil Bykerk, Godfrey Perrott
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• Session #45 Premium Deficiency Reserves
  Elaine Canlas, Martin Staehlin, Russell Willard
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• Session #47 Catastrophic Event Management: Planning for Extremes
  Derek Blum, Theresa Resnick, Peter Robinson, Carl Taylor
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• Session #48 Effective Decision-Support Tools for Consumers
  Jodie Hansen, Jeff Robertson
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• Session #49 The Current and Future State of Retiree Medical Plans
  Ward Birgham, Barbara Niehus, John Schubert, Dale Yamamoto
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• Session #50 Pricing a New Product
  Joan Barrett, Penny Hahn, John Lloyd
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• Session #51 The Search for Entrepreneurial Actuaries - Part 2
  Sandra Coyne-Westerkamp, Ian Duncan
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• Session #52 Rehabilitation of Long Term Care Blocks of Business
  James Berger, Jill Burns, Kamilla Svajgl, Geoffrey Walton
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• Session #53 Individual Disability Insurance Market Watch
  Jay Barriss, Robert Beal, Forrest Richen
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• Session #54 Making Sense of the Health Policy Process
  Karl Madrecki, John Meerschaert, Jim Toole
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• Session #56 General Luncheon
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• Session #58 Health ERM Buzz Group
  Rajeev Dutt
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• Session #59 Provider Payments to Support Transparency
  Amita Rastogi, Lisa Tourville
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• Session #60 Update on the Medicare Advantage Process and Plan Performance
  William Finch, Charles Miller, Susan Pierce
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• Session #61 Matching a New Product to a Market
  Neawl Luitjens, Kismet Toksu
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• Session #62 Self Promotion for Introverts - Part 3
  Nancy Ancowitz
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• Session #63 LTC Combination Products
  Carl Friedrich, Lijia Guo, Wenjie Xue
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• Session #64 U.S. Healthcare System A Status Update
  Raymond Berry, Elaine Canlas, Jim Toole
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• Session #65 Structuring Data Systems for Maximum Performance
  Carl Desrochers, Kevin Pledge
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• Session #66 Predictive Modeling Tools and Techniques
  Ian Duncan, Jonathan Polon, Mark Zanecki
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• Session #68 Benefit Designs to Support Consumerism and Transparency
  Valerie Lendt, Kismet Toksu, Lisa Tourville
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• Session #69 Medicare Supplement Industry Overview & Profitability
  John Cathcart, Kenneth Clark
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• Session #70 Self Promotion for Introverts: Part 4 Your Networking Advantage
  Nancy Ancowitz, Richard Marchel
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• Session #71 Mega-Trends and Mini-Pops: Effects on an Actuary's Future
  Kimberly Dwornick, Sudha Shenoy
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• Session #72 Advanced Topics in Group Disability Experience Rating
  Jared Benedetti, Paul Lavallee, Jeffrey Schuh
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• Session #73 IAAHS Survey on Actuarial Issues and Practices
  Jonathan Shreve
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• Session #74 Models for Disease and Care Management
  Michael Cousins, John Stenson
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• Session #75 Consulting to Self-Funded Employers on Data Analysis and Cost Drivers
  Jeffrey Gavlick, Jonathan Hendrickson, Scott Rabin
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• Session #76 A Health Predictive Modeling Software Guide: Results of New SOA Study!
  Syed Mehmud, Steven Siegel, Ross Winkelman
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• Session #78 Health Section Council Hot Breakfast
  William Lane
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• Session #80 Global Developments in Critical Illness
  Barry Eagle, Susan Elliott, Gary Mooney
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• Session #81 Designing Care Management Programs to Improve Outcomes
  Denise Christian, Holly Michaels Fisher
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• Session #82 Helping Employers Understand the Value of Their Benefits
  Susan Haugen, Karin Swenson-Moore, Kismet Toksu
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• Session #83 Managed Medicaid Update
  Michael Muldoon, Kathleen Tottle, Gregory Winkler
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• Session #84 Demand Forecasting for Healthcare Delivery Systems
  Thomas Leibowitz, James Walbridge
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• Session #85 Practical Applications of Stochastic Modeling for Disability Insurance
  Keith Gant, Richard Leavitt, Yidong Liu
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• Session #86 Focus Your Time for Superior Results
  Ian Duncan, Doris Orr
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• Session #87 Health Impact Assessments-A Quantitative Approach to Assessing Policy Tradeoffs
  Brian Cole, Gerald Kominski, Jim Toole
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• Session #88 Reinsurance for Health Plans
  Samantha Engel, Jib Martens, Ruan Sexton, Todd Watson
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• Session #89 CDHP Experience Update
  Jean-Francois Beaule, Penny Hahn, Mark Litow, James Murphy
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• Session #91 Interaction of Public and Private Healthcare Financing An International Perspective
  Howard Bolnick, Joel Shalowitz, Jim Toole
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• Session #92 Pharmacy Based Disease Management
  John Stenson
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• Session #93 Worksite Wellness Programs
  Bradley Cornish, Edward McEllin
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• Session #94 Impact of Advertising and Media on Healthcare Demand
  Joseph Gifford, Lynette Trygstad
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• Session #95 Stochastic Modeling in Health Benefits
  Charles Fuhrer, Lijia Guo
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• Session #96 Planning and Reporting the Community Benefit for Non-Profit Providers
  Jim Toole, Julie Trocchio
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• Session #97 When a Brand Goes Generic
  Laura Barrows, Joel Shalowitz
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