Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session on Long Term Care Insurance provided an update on the Society's Task Force on Valuation Methods for Long-Term Care Insurance, methods and assumptions that are being used for policies, premiums, and reserves on long-term care policies, and the regulatory environment.

Description: This article describes Medicare Supplement and short-term care products in more detail, and we compare their risk profiles. We explore the concept that these two products—when offered together—may provide a complementary hedge of certain policyholder behavior risks.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries' Joint Risk Management Section and the Joint Risk Management Research Committee are pleased to make available a new report on the application of ERM. Authored by Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, Sim Segal, Michael Wolfson and Heidi Walsh, the report provides a novel demonstration on how ERM can be applied to serve the Canadian public by informing decision makers on the risks facing the current and future delivery of long-term care.

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 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: 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: The summary and introduction of an SOA research paper that explores valuable insights and recommendations for insurance companies considering entering the market of commercial long-term care insurance (LTCI) in the Asia-Pacific, based on individual health status.

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

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.