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

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

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: 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: 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 1991 panel session discussion is a progress report of the Society of Actuaries' Long-Term Care [LTC] Experience Committee. The presentation is organized around three principle areas of the Committee's activities. The first area is noninsurance company experience. The second area is the Committee's 1984-89 study of intercompany insurance experience of monoline long-term care health insurance products. The third area is the Committee's efforts to develop the experience of continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: Panelists discuss current and future developments in health insurance on the Internet and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act from the perspective of providers, insurers, employers and customers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 131

Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16