Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Many long-term-care insurers are outsourcing administrative functions to management organizations. The panelists discuss the reasons for this outsourcing, the functions that can be outsourced, financial incentives for vendors, criteria for selecting a vendor, monitoring performance and other aspects of the business relationship.

Description: Provides an overview of a Columbia University graduate course in actuarial science called a Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market. It includes an overview of this unique course and a summary of course content and completed research in the course. The course covers all financial aspects of US and international health insurance.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Some companies are planning to increase sales and lower expenses by packaging the sale of long-term-care coverage with complementary products. Life and annuity combinations, market positioning, product features and product development issues are discussed.

Description: This session discusses items being promoted by the administration, other politicians, and others interested in the outcome of health care reform. Included is the possible effect on private LTC insurers, LTC taxation, and reporting requirements. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: This session discussion is about long-term health care funding. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about open ended managed care plans from various perspectives including structure, marketing and actuarial issues.

Description: This paper discusses health care developments in Canada current to 1961. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: This discussion reviews the effect expected from legislation in the U.S. to finance the cost of medical care of the aged. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: Short-term Care insurance provides consumers with an alternative option for financing the costs of medical care due to a short-term disability or post-acute care. This article provides an overview of the current Short-term Care market and compares some of the key benefit features to those found in Long-term Care products that are available today.