Description: Statement that the SOA has formed a task force to address the morbidity tables used for minimum reserves of individual and group health insurance contracts. Issue No. 35.

Description: Methods and assumptions used in the valuation of savings by external care vendors

Description: This article recaps the Pricing and Valuation Boot Camp. Issue No 60

Description: The Behavioral Finance subgroup of the Health Section will be publishing a series of literature reviews in Health Watch. This is the first review of three in the series. The reviewed article describes an attempt to place an econometric value on consumers’ preferences between broad and narrow networks.

Description: Part II of a two-part series discussing individual market evolution from before the ACA through President Trump's first term.

Description: Part I of a two-part series concerning the evolution of the individual market. It begins with background, discusses present markets and 2018 regulations.

Description: We propose using premiums and tax revenue to fund high-cost individuals in the Individual ACA market.

Description: The article explores actuarial pricing issues that will occur for the first time in 2016, such as risk adjustment rating, suppressed utilization, surge in Exchange enrollment, and an updated Actuarial Value calculator.

Description: A discussion of an alternative valuation methodology which addresses many of the shortcomings of the current valuation system for U.S. life and health insurers one of which is the proliferation of undesirable variations in state requirements. Issue No. 37

Description: Help to generate ideas for formulating a pricing strategy of 2015 individual health insurance products despite having very limited claims and premium experience in early 2014.