Description: NewsDirect September 2012 issue

Description: From the Editor: This issue of Long-Term Care News attempts to address how LTC insurers manage investment risk and morbidity misestimation risks.

Description: SOA offers experience studies and research reports on long-term care (LTC) insurance to help inform LTC actuaries.

Description: Financing Chronic Care Monograph

Description: Discusses the top concerns of U.S. insurers regarding the recent IASB Exposure Draft entitled Insurance Contracts and the FASB Exposure Draft entitled Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts.

Description: A proposal to reform the health care provider payment system through: a national fee schedule, shifting more reimbursements to primary care providers, better integration of hospital & physician fees, evidence based care, pay for performance, and a better provider risk sharing mechanism.

Description: Feature article featuring expert opinions on the future of health care

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Panelists discuss the primary risks of long-term-care insurance, reasons for reinsurance utilization, the variable forms of long-term-care reinsurance in today's market, and other forms of risk management.

Description: This article reviews the cost of behavioral health care and looks at how the involvement of Primary Care Physicians leads to a less efficient and effective treatment and is an increasing cost many plans have yet to address. From Health Section Newsletter, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This paper is a theoretical examination of the structure of the property-casualty insurance industry using economic theory to compare companies with agency distribution versus direct distribution. The purpose of the paper is to justify the existence of both types of distribution systems in equilibrium.