Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the ChJ-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. A copula function was used to model the bivariate portion of the data. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This is the sixth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 35 insurers. Available data was collected on policies issued between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2007. Claims incurred on policies during this same timeframe were followed from claim inception through the earlier of claim termination or June 30, 2008.

Description: This final report is a SOA Task Force response to a NAIC request to develop valuation recommendations for long-term care insurance. Two basic sets of tables are provided: one for institutional benefits [nursing home] and one for noninstitutional benefits [home health care]. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This session discussion is about nonforfeiture values for long-term care: valuation of different approaches [cash surrender value, return of premium, reduced paid-up, extended term, shortened benefit period], sensitivity testing, implications for marketing and regulatory status. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Provides an overview of developments in the healthcare market including provider billing practices. Provides an overview of the Government Finance Officer’s Association (GFOA) in New York on Dec. 6, 2018

Description: This report is the fifth in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA and the SOA Long-Term Care Experience Committee. The report presents results for industry long-term care insurance (LTCI) persistency. Persistency is examined based on eighteen participating companies reporting lapse, mortality, and total termination activity for calendar years 2000 through 2016. The report and a supplemental Tableau database with several dashboard views can be accessed in the Materials section.

Description: Panelists discuss opportunities to improve medical cost trends through underwriting, healthcare benefit designs, contracting, network management, claims operations, and medical management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 40

Description: Analyzing large quantities of raw complex data is often a challenge in the health care industry. During this webcast, there will be a demonstration of how unsupervised machine learning techniques can be applied to such data to help bring useful insights. This will include examples that use unsupervised learning techniques spanning dimensionality reduction, clustering and anomaly detection.

Description: This session presents results from the 4th SOA-sponsored long-term-care [LTC] intercompany experience study. From Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 9