Description: Summary of Report examining issues affecting the cost of Medicare supplement insurance policies high trend, high outpatient hospital costs, new prospective payment methods. Issue No. 39.

Description: Essay offers a vision of health care where everyone is covered, everyone is eligible, receives fair pricing, receives vital information and is taxed the same.

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: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about Social Security's projected costs exceeding income

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Examines benefit plan design dynamics, including FAS 106 impacts, involved in Medicare retiree plans by discussing some typical examples.

Description: Panelists review the history of why Medicare has lacked prescription drug coverage and why some of the previous proposals have failed. The session then discusses drug coverage in Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplemental plans and Part D. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 106pd.

Description: This article makes organizations entering the MA market aware of the star rating climate, as well as short- and long-term star rating & revenue considerations.

Description: Discussion of state medicaid expansion due to provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries is engaged in several projects that proactively examine the future status of the Medicare Program. This session presents the findings that have resulted from these efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This article takes a closer look at Medicare Part D Coverage and the types of payment demonstration payment of the federal reinsurance amountFlexible Capitation, Fixed Capitation, MA Rebate. Issue No 60