Description: This is the second Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. For this report, the committee gathered and refined data that dates back to 1984. This report combines and analyzes data received from 14 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance.

Description: Presentation at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session will discuss trends in medical technology as they affect health care benefits programs, including: life extension, organ transplants, high-cost procedures, and plan design.

Description: The discussion will review major elements of the reinsurance market as health care reform replaces traditional markets. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Our panelists discuss mechanisms to measure affordability, reducing costs through product design and other responses by plans, employers & providers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 82

Description: The advent of machine learning algorithms has taken predictive analytics and risk scoring to a new level. From gradient boosting machines to k-nearest neighbors regression, the use of these techniques has gained significant traction in healthcare - including health systems like the Cleveland Clinic. This session will discuss the use of predictive analytics to go beyond just assessing the risk of a patient, and instead focus on prescribing a specific intervention of care. In practice, the recommendation of a care plan goes beyond just attributing a score to a patient. It provides physicians and care coordinators the most probabilistic options - e.g. referral to social worker, depression screening, weight-loss program - for positively impacting a patient's future healthcare outcome.

Description: This is the databook for the "Health Care Cost - From Birth to Death". 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: Presented at the Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. Long-term care LTC insurance is frequently not covered by national social insurance programs. When costs are expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product, the future burden of financing LTC would not lead to unbearable tax levels and is not particularly large in comparison to the projected costs for pensions and health care. After identifying the breadth of definitions of LTC needs, it is argued that LTC is an insurable risk. The paper concludes that LTC social insurance is affordable in developed countries.

Description: Remarks on the attitudes underlying the stalling of health care reform legislation.

Description: Full version of Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: September 2008 issue of the Long-Term Care Section newsletter