Description: This session discuses the Canadian health-care system including hospital perspective, general Medicare concerns, budget constraints, increasing costs, and private insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews long-term care LTC products. Discussion topics include product design, pricing administration, regulation, marketing and AARP. From the Record of the Society of Acturaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This paper describes the prevalence of the still uninsured long-term care financial risk, and how the at-need annuity/home equity combination can address long term care needs.

Description: The Health Section Council received an excellent response to its announcement last year that a special issue of its newsletter would be devoted to papers on long-term care insurance. Ten papers were received and published in the May issue.

Description: PowerPoint slides of presentation given at Gerontological Society of America.

Description: This is a Washington Post article in which the reporter, Caroline E. Mayer, quotes actuary Amy Pahl about long-term care needs.

Description: Unfortunately, for many long-term care (LTC) products, realized experience is worse than originally expected and rate increases have become necessary. Filing a rate increase on a block of business often necessitates a separate filing in every state, often with different requests for support for the need for a rate increase from each state regulator. This session focuses on the best practices for filing LTC rate increases, both from the perspective of the filers as well as the regulators. Learn what regulators expect from companies pursuing LTC rate increases and how to be prepared to handle the rate-filing process.

Description: You’ve Sent Mail by Robert E. Winawer from NewsDirect Newsletter, January 2002, Issue No. 39. A short article about direct response marketing.

Description: Chairperson's Corner from News Direct, May 2005, Issue No. 50.

Description: State Medicaid agencies have been implementing value-based payment (VBP) models for the last decade and are increasingly exploring advanced population-based payment (PBP) models that increase flexibility, predictability, and accountability for participating provider organizations. PBP models show promise in advancing Medicaid priorities, but are still in the early stages of development, and model design and implementation challenges remain. This article from the Center for Health Care Strategies explores the fundamentals of VBP and how PBP - a particular type of payment model - can help Medicaid agencies achieve goals related to care transformation and quality improvement, revenue stability, and controlling cost of care.