Description: Three long-term care claimants lead very full lives, thanks to making the most of their employer-sponsored group long-term care insurance coverage, in terms of using it through intelligent and conservative benefit utilization.

Description: Panel discussion on how insurers can deal with the proliferation of laws, court decisions and regulations, and on the outlook for future developments in health insurance regulatory environment.

Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: Summary of pending legislation in response to looming crisis in the Long Term Vare market.

Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Panel discussion of national, state, and provincial developments in health care policy and regulation. Presented at the 1975 annual meeting.

Description: Report on the first study conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the SOA Long Term Care Experience Committee. The study examines voluntary lapse and total termination activity in LTCI for calendar years 2000 and 2001. Overall, the results indicate that LTCI persistency has continued to improve however, the current improvement seems to be coming from the individual lines of business rather than the group lines.

Description: Article describes several options for limiting increases in health care costs and urges actuarial profession to be more proactive in asdvocating for reform.

Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Remarks on the attitudes underlying the stalling of health care reform legislation.