Description: Map of MA Regions Receiving Bids for Regional PPO Products

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1994 – Volume 28, No. 5 in which the author looks at the original estimates compared the actual estimates in regards to End Stage Renal Disease ESRD program.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about Social Security and Medicare. This note compares actual experience for both fiscal year 1970 and calendar year 1970 with the short-range cost estimates given in the 1970 Trustees’ Reports.

Description: Highlights the recent changes to Social Security and Medicare from enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Also highlights some changes voted in by one of the houses but not by both, and therefore not enacted.

Description: Overview of Medicare's 1979 financial projections under optimistic, pessimistic, and intermediate assumptions, for the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance programs.

Description: This article discusses Social Security amendments of 1983 that include triggering devices based on trust-fund ratios that affect the funding or benefits of the system for both OASDI and Medicare.

Description: Summarizes the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, MMA. Focuses on changes to the Medicare Advantage, MA, program and the market reaction to date.

Description: Summary of a talk by Robert J. Myers given at a recent meeting of the Baltimore Actuaries Club on revising the standard premium rate for Supplementary Medical Insurance.

Description: In this article, Dr. Ted LeBoy, Assistant Medical Director of Continental Assurance Co., commented on some changes that had been observed during the first eight months of Medicare's existence. These included changes in the average number of hospital days and physician charges.

Description: This is an editorial warning about the escalating costs of Medicare as outlined in the 1983 Annual Report of The Board of Trustees of The Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. The editorial ends with a question asking what the actuarial profession, and its members individually, ought to be doing that they aren’t already doing?