Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: Table of contents for the 1972 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: Table of Contents of the 1973 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: This is the twenty-seventh annual report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance. The report contains experience for the years 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973.

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: Opioids overdoses have contributed to increases in mortality among white American. This article gives some detail on the speed and the reach of the epidemic.

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

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

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.