Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session deals with the use of reinsurance in the strategy of carriers' approaches to the long-term-care marketplace. Specifically, it discusses the market potential of LTC and the benefits of reinsurer expertise, smoothing of claims variability and protection from excess risk, the pros and cons of selling another carrier's plan, and types of reinsurance.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Gathering information and assess risks of Managed Care Networks. Looking at cost and service areas. Issue No. 44.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Discusses three key factors related to catastrophic health care events: • Trends in health care delivery and medical technology that are likely to impact catastrophic care costs • Methods of cost and risk control through early identification and specialized medical management • Modeling the cost of catastrophic events on health insurance programs

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discussion covers: how hospitals and hospital management companies are increasingly entering traditional indemnity insurance markets, hospital representatives address health care financing from the hospital perspective, the risks and financial incentives from the hospital's perspective, and whether hospitals are marginally pricing their health insurance products.

Description: An editorial about the status of health care reform in the U.S.

Description: This research report that provides a literature survey of methodologies applying machine learning to insurance claim modeling.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpts from a recent white paper regarding the Individual Mandate.

Description: Concerns of Long-Term Care Insurance for consumers, life insurance agents, financial planners, insurance companies and regulators. From Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2

Description: The interplay between technology and design to create safe, comfortable and thriving environments for aging in place and managing care costs.