Description: The panel offers a summary of the Medicare Modernization Act signed into law in 2003, which implemented sweeping changes to the Medicare program. Topics include Medicare Advantage, the impact on Medicare Supplement, Part D, and the impact on retiree health plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 127

Description: Panelists discuss impact of the MMA on Medicare Supplement policies, on Medicare Part D, on Medicare Advantage policies, and on employers. Session 16PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Presented at April 1965 Spring Meeting. This is a series of reports on various topics: federal charter of American Academy of Actuaries, formation of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, formation of a special committee on pensions, discussion of Medicare Bill HR 6675, California requirements for formation of a new life insurer.

Description: Teaching session on the working Medicare contracts: background on the origin of Medicare risk contracts, feasibility of an HMO or competitive medical plan entering the Medicare risk market, and outline of the HCFA adjusted community rate filing process.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses national health policy issues in the U.S. and the impact of these issues on the private health insurance business. Issues include health insurance for the unemployed, non-paying patients and cost shifting, competition versus regulation and DRG prospective pricing for Medicare.

Description: In session 26PD of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium, discussed is how the new Medicare prescription drug legislation creates a number of issues for employers and managed-care plans. Employers must determine the impact of the legislation on their retiree prescription drug costs, evaluate options for plan design and make decisions about how to reflect the effect of the legislation in their FAS 106 valuations. Managed-care plans need to review the effect of the legislation on plan design, statutory filings and financial reporting for their Medicare products.

Description: This session on Medicare+Choice [M+C] includes an update on risk adjustment methodology, legislative developments that are impacting the M+C program and measures taken by health-care companies to adapt to those changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 82pd.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 dramatically changes the competitive landscape for Medicare products by establishing the Medicare+Choice program. This session recaps the Balanced Budget Act's impact on payment rates for capitated plans and the effects that the changes have made on benefit design and enrollment trends in certain geographical areas.

Description: Panel discusses the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare failed agreement, but still examines the draft of the report, as well as other proposals for changes in Medicare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: The presentation discusses the history of the Medicare+Choice [M+C] program and the challenges faced by plans offering the program, as well as the challenges faced by those interested in entering the program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 60