Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: An economic analysis of bariatric surgery and health care costs supports the case for health plans to cover these procedures.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision modeling.

Description: Panel explores new disability products offered by writers of individual disability insurance and the ways in which these products connect with other types of insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Participants discuss the current issues of work site health product portfolio designs, including various supplemental health products for large & small employers and individuals. Topics include dental and various voluntary products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 27

Description: This 1981 session focused on health insurance coverages. Questions included: 1. What are problem areas that have given rise to recent legislative and regulatory activity? 2. What new or different sales practices are being utilized to alleviated consumerist and regulator concerns? 3. How have legislative restrictions on product design and sales practices affected pricing adequacy, morbidity experience and the long-range availability of such coverages? 4. What can actuaries do to educate the public and regulators about cost projections and premium adequacy? 5. Is it ethical to market a product with a low benefit payoff, high expense ratio? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: The SOA released a report titled Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform, which looks at the impact on insurance markets, pricing and profitability.

Description: A view of Social Security disability experience for 1970 through 1978, and future projected trends based on observed application, approval, and recovery rates.