Description: Through the sponsorship of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Society of Actuaries partnered with Wakely to use their health care data to study the effects of COVID-19 on overall health care claims for individuals with a COVID-19 diagnosis. The conclusion of the study is that individuals with COVID-19 claims had significant increases in health care costs leading up to their months of diagnosis, as well as in the months following their diagnosis. These effects were more pronounced for individuals who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 as well as for individuals with prior co-morbidities. Finally, the overall health care costs of these members plateaued at significantly higher levels than their pre-COVID baselines. In fact, all the main membership cohorts experienced claim levels that were at least 20% higher than their pre-COVID starting points.

Description: Table of Contents of the 1975 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: This is the 1973 report in a series of annual studies of the morbibity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance. This report contains experience for the years 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972.

Description: This is the 1979 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance.

Description: Since detailed claim information is not readily available to the Committee on Group Mortality and Morbidity on an annual basis, a special investigation of group hospital expense experience has been conducted. That investigation is summarized in this paper, and covers plan descriptions, morbidity and cost data, and continuation tables.

Description: Introductory report on several factors influencing the actual to tabular ratios for health insurance.

Description: This is the 1971 report in a series on annual studies of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1974 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: This is the 1976 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly indemnity insurance. This report contains experience for the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975.

Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.