Description: The panel offers a summary of the Medicare Modernization Act signed into law in 2003, which implemented sweeping changes to the Medicare program. Topics include Medicare Advantage, the impact on Medicare Supplement, Part D, and the impact on retiree health plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 127

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting focuses on group health insurance including discussion of financial projections, calculating reserves, claims control and management reports.

Description: The session discussion is valuation and reserving issues with regards to group medical - including HMOs, and individual medical - including disability and long-term care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: Panelelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the current use of risk adjusters to spread risk among various helath carriers and health plans, and whether the system is effective and equitable.

Description: At this session of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium, SEC medical rollforward schedules are reviewed. The background that led to these schedules, i.e. stock analysts attempting to understand earnings results, is presented. Differences in reserving practices among managed care companies are discussed.

Description: This is a poster presentation about a study to evaluate various methods for projecting health benefit populations.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1967 Annual Meeting covers mortality issues including trends in longevity, factors affecting future mortality rates, and projection methods.

Description: This session is about compliance with NAIC requirements and Medicare-Select products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. In this discussion, claim management experts describe state-of-the-art claim management theories and practices for disability coverages.