Description: On May 5, 2016, the Long-Term Care Valuation (B) Work Group of National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC’s) Health Actuarial (B) Task Force’s Long-Term Care Actuarial Working Group (LTCAWG) requested recommendations from the American Academy of Actuaries (Academy)1 and the Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA)2 to replace the mortality and lapse bases for statutory minimum reserves. A copy of the request is included in Appendix 1 to this report. The Academy and SOA created a Long-Term Care Valuation Work Group (Work Group) to address the request. The Work Group is chaired by Warren Jones, the Mortality Subgroup is led by Bruce Stahl, and the Lapse Subgroup is led by Bob Yee. The Work Group has provided regular updates to the LTCAWG at national meetings and provided opportunities for the LTCAWG members to ask questions regarding the work in progress. This report presents the recommended lapse tables in Appendix 3, and recommended mortality tables in Appendix 4, and describes the methodology and process in developing these tables.

Description: Read the Society of Actuaries' latest update about how health care executives view the future of predictive analytics in the health care industry.

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.

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Description: This session summarizes recent trends in behavioral health parity, pros and cons of parity, the impact of mandated benefits on near-term medical costs and methods to effectively manage mental health utilization. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 81

Description: Panelists discuss their research study into actuarial issues stemming from care and disease management programs. Topics include programs, interventions, and measuring outcomes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 31

Description: This session discussion is about the federal health care topics: managed competition, universal coverage versus universal access, taxes, funding, budgets and benefit to include or exclude. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

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 session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.