Description: A report on the proceedings of the June 2010 SOA health meeting. Leading topics included health care reform, opportunities to expand actuaries' roles, the global financial crisis, and collaboration with other organizations.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A good primer on how clinical studies should be conducted and how statistics are used and misused to influence us.

Description: Preview of the LTC section's sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in October 2008, including claims management, litigation and public relations, preparing for PBA and stochastic modeling, pricing, research studies, and securitizations and reinsurance.

Description: Recap on the annual meeting, and in particular the sessions sponsored by the health section.

Description: Summary of results of a 2010 Health Section survey of actuaries and Medicare population, on ways to bend the cost trend curve downward. Issues included transparency, quality measures, fraud and abuse, provider payment, malpractice, medical errors, consumer education, and the pros and cons of employer-sponsored coverage.

Description: An overview of the various track topics and sessions in the 9th Annual ILTCI Conference.

Description: This article provides an update on the progress that has been made for the 2017 LTC Section initiatives.

Description: Data requirements for the Society of Actuaries cancer experience study, for those submitting exposure and claim information.

Description: A list of acronyms for the names of the agencies, unions, and other organizations and entities involved in the French social insurance, health policy, and long-term care environment.