Description: Vincent Kane recaps the “Statistics for Reading the Health Services and Policy Literature” session at the SOA ’10 Health Meeting.

Description: This report outlines the current wellness environment, the objectives of the wellness study and provides a summary of the overall study findings. This report is supplemented by the Research Summary Report, Survey Results, and Interviews with Researchers. This document includes a summary of key findings from each of the three phases.

Description: This article will clarify valuation issues for the waiver of premium benefit in Accident and Health products.

Description: In this paper, the authors created a mathematical model which reflects typical relativities by age, duration of disablement, and deferment period for disability risk. The paper is followed by discussions submitted by various reviewers.

Description: This paper explores available disability experience data in order to shed some light on the character and extent of the subjective influences which affect the frequency and duration of disability. A mathematical model for computing disability income premiums and reserves is also presented.

Description: The focus of the webcast on Modeling Long–Term Medical Trends for Valuation Purposes was a discussion of the underlying methodology of the model, a walk through of the actual model, and a review of the considerations for its practical usage by actuaries. The running time of this video is 1 hour and 3 minutes. It is a presentation of slides without audio.

Description: This is an internal letter from an actuary to an associate regarding a claims study that established, in the mind of the writer, the adequacy and conclusiveness of a small sample size in certain situations. Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1988, Vol. 3

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the ChJ-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. A copula function was used to model the bivariate portion of the data. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: In this paper a method is described for pricing - and reserving for- return of premium benefits under disability income policies. Followed by a discussion paper

Description: Discussion of methods to estimate unpaid claim liability UCL for health plans. Includes traditional IBNR lag method and a lag method based on claims reported but not paid RBNP. Issue No. 45