Description: Health care cost trends are a key ingredient that health care actuaries use in their practice. In collaboration with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), the Society of Actuaries has put together a data extract for practicing health actuaries to be able to better understand historical trends and cost disruptors.

Description: Research report describing an analysis of experience transition rates between Long Term Care insurance claim settings over the course of a claim. Examples of such transitions are from an assisted care facility to home health care or from home health care to a nursing home.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about delivering adequate universal health coverage. The panelists discuss the Canadian national health care system, Oregon's plan to seek a Medicaid waiver to implement a new format within which health care will be reimbursed, and the American Medical Association's [AMA's] Health Access America reform proposal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.

Description: This study used commercial data held by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) and Medicare fee-for-service data to analyze health care cost differences by age and their contribution to overall health care cost change. The commercial data includes claims from 2002 through 2010 and the Medicare data includes claims from 2006 through 2010.

Description: This report illustrates employer group commercial health care costs and trends from 2013 – 2017.

Description: As part of an upcoming Society of Actuaries (SOA) research release to model health care costs in 2020 and 2021, a set of “Return Stages” were created in order to define the various level of activities being observed, as well as to contemplate the ways these stages may progress as various cities, counties and states release their own phasing processes for returning their jurisdictions to normal.

Description: This fact sheet summarizes the results of a survey analyzing retirees’ and pre-retirees’ concerns on retirement. It also reveals how these groups have prepared or are preparing to face risks and offers personal risk management strategies and tips.

Description: Proposes setting premiums such that inflation and age could change the premium over time, rather than prefunding. The value may be to change the approach to pricing LTC and improve the risk.

Description: Fact sheet about the monograph on Managing the Impact of Long-Term Care Needs and Expenses on Retirement Security.

Description: On May 5, 2016, the Long-Term Care Valuation (B) Work Group of National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC’s) Health Actuarial (B) Task Force’s Long-Term Care Actuarial Working Group (LTCAWG) requested recommendations from the American Academy of Actuaries (Academy)1 and the Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA)2 to replace the mortality and lapse bases for statutory minimum reserves. A copy of the request is included in Appendix 1 to this report. The Academy and SOA created a Long-Term Care Valuation Work Group (Work Group) to address the request. The Work Group is chaired by Warren Jones, the Mortality Subgroup is led by Bruce Stahl, and the Lapse Subgroup is led by Bob Yee. The Work Group has provided regular updates to the LTCAWG at national meetings and provided opportunities for the LTCAWG members to ask questions regarding the work in progress. This report presents the recommended lapse tables in Appendix 3, and recommended mortality tables in Appendix 4, and describes the methodology and process in developing these tables.