Description: Observations of a Home Health Care Experience Analysis incidence rates, selection rates, avg length of service. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, October 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: This article discusses the positive aspects of E-prescribing, a transaction in which a physician transmits a prescription directly to a pharmacy through an electronic device. Issue No. 60

Description: This session discussion is about Long-Term-Care valuation issues: current industry practices, regulatory needs, and the SOA Task Force on Valuation Methods of Long-Term-Care insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about underwriting of Long-Term Care. Topics discussed: 1. Certain aspects of the underwriting process. 2. Different generic types of underwriting. 3. Evaluating results and taking action. 4. Initial intercompany insured lives claim results.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. The chairperson and members of the SOA LTC Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force discussed the major conclusions and decisions found in the exposure draft of the Society's Task Force for LTC Insurance Valuation Methods.

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims using currently available software to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: Long Term Care Insurance Reserves and Reinsurance Balancing between statutory and GAAP requiements. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: This article incorporates the NAIC long-term care insurance model regulation to discuss the appropriateness of rate increases by monitoring emerging experience to manage the risk. This includes experience analysis issues, maximum rate increase calculations, business considerations and valuation issues. From Long-Term Care, December 2003, Issue 10

Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session on Long Term Care Insurance provided an update on the Society's Task Force on Valuation Methods for Long-Term Care Insurance, methods and assumptions that are being used for policies, premiums, and reserves on long-term care policies, and the regulatory environment.

Description: The first Intercompany Study of the Long-Term-Care Experience Committee and the first public report on experience of lives insured under private insurance plans. Includes incidence rates, lapse rates and claim costs. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1993-94 Reports