Description: This paper introduces continuing care retirement communities and outlines the major recent developments in financing procedures and regulatory requirements aimed at keeping these entities solvent. In particular, it describes the Actuarially Based Financial Management System created by the AAA and the accounting Statement of Position 90-8 promulgated by the AICPA. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995 Vol. 47

Description: This article addresses the complexities and practicalities of constructing a continuance curve from long-term care LTC claims data.

Description: At this session of the SOA 1995 Vancourver Spring Meeting, members of the Long Term Care Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force present the conclusions and rationale found in their final report. Assumptions, methodology, and NAIC's view of the report are discussed.

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: Experience study covering over 80 continuing care retirement communities, CCRCs, in California including 17 life care communities, offering retirees residential living and services of health care and personal care. Life expectancy experience of residents of CCRCs is developed in support of the California statutory reserve requirements for CCRCs.

Description: This article discusses how small insurance companies can get into the complex equity indexed market by using alliances wherein there is one primary company and one or more secondary companies. The primary company would perform all of the functions for itself and some of the functions for the secondary companies. The companies pool assets to reach critical mass.

Description: This session is about long-term care and effective tax rate on LTC insurance, capital needs, rate guarantees and asset/liability scenarios. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists discuss the latest trends in long-term-care product design and pricing issues. Topics include ASOP 18, combination disability products, morbidity & lapse assumptions, state regulations and underwriting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This article is illustrates the implications of the managed care organization MCO risk based capital RBC formula adopted by NAIC and compares it to the health organization risk based capital HORBC formula. From The Actuary, Nov 1997, Vol. 31, Issue 9

Description: This paper presents some preliminary results of an analysis of data from a regional municipality in Ontario to assess long term care risks. The data includes information on the optimal level of care at one or more points in time for each individual under study modelled using a Markov process.