Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss recent developments in expanding major medical expense coverage under individual policies and group policies, and progress made in providing hospital, surgical and medical expense coverage beyond age 65. Guaranteed renewability and substandard issues are discussed.

Description: This discussion seeks to answer what reserves are required for individual accident and sickness policies, looks at the actuary's responsibility for experience analysis, discusses product development and policy change problems, and examines the major current developments affecting individual accident and sickness insurance.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to health insurance coverage at older ages including levels of coverage, underwriting issues, expense levels, and renewability provisions.

Description: October 2012 issue of Health Watch newsletter

Description: A health actuary describes her journey as a parent of a child with medical needs, and the complexities associated with navigating the health insurance industry.

Description: This is a brief report that summarizes recent changes in the prevalent medical loss ratio methodologies and also looks at some of the more recent experience of health insurers that filed medical loss ratio reports.

Description: This is the preface to the 1976 Report of The Committee on Group Life and Health Insurance. The report consists of the following sections: 1. Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance. 2. Group Long-Term Disability Insurance.

Description: This chapter focuses on creating practical models that aid in the prediction of the risk of readmission to a specific hospital within 30 days of discharge for Medicare patients, to aid in the identification and stratification of at-risk patients for hospitals considering building an intervention program in a cost-effective manner. For readers who wish to develop their own predictive model, a dataset is provided on the Actexmadriver.com website, and R code is provided in the appendix to this chapter.

Description: The Johns Hopkins ACG Team's comments regarding their participation in the Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment.

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.