Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 37OF, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelist provides background on this new version of statutory accounting, formally called the Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, an NAIC document that took effect at the beginning of 2001, noting that even though the accounting isn’t yet formally an accreditation standard, it’s basically in effect everywhere. The panelist discusses the three key classes of documents within the manual: the Statutory Statement of Accounting Principles [SSAP] Appendix A consisting of various excerpts from NAIC model laws and regulations, and Appendix B, containing interpretations of the Emerging Accounting Issues Working Group. The panelist then discusses the relevant pieces of accounting guidance that are important to health valuation actuaries. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission informed one of its registrants that prospective unlocking of benefit reserves for long-term care LTC insurance was not an acceptable practice under current US GAAP. The purpose of this article is to make actuaries aware of this action and provide some additional context.

Description: Implications of the Final Health Privacy Rule HIPAA with regards to underwriting, renewing, rating, reserving, reinsurance and acquisitions. Issue No. 40.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, June 2002, Issue No. 46.

Description: Full version of Health Watch News, Issue No. 56, September 2007.

Description: NAIC Health Update. Issue No. 44.

Description: In this session, panelists discuss risk-based approach to solvency regulation, developments in the health RBC formula, differences between the health and life RBC formulas and strategies for improving one's health RBC position. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 40

Description: The ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio Provisions

Description: In 2007 the International Accounting Standards Board IASB released a discussion paper proposing a new accounting model for insurance contracts, known as the current exit value model. One aspect of the proposed accounting model is that claim liabilities would need to include explicit margins satisfying certain criteria. Currently it is common for U.S. medical insurers to include explicit margins in their claim liabilities. However, we demonstrate that the margin approach most commonly used today by U.S. medical insurers does not satisfy the objectives articulated in the IASB discussion paper regarding the role of margins. We then propose a new formula for including explicit margins in U.S. medical insurance claim liabilities in a manner that is more compatible with the principles articulated in the IASB discussion paper. Finally, we illustrate our proposed claim liability formula using an example drawn from real-life data.