Description: In the Public Interest 2014 Issue 10 The Emerging Pricing: Shock in the Treatment for Hepatitis C

Description: This discussion focuses on sickness insurance and associated issues. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: Actuarial appraisal and role of the actuary with regards to Health Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions. Issue No. 40.

Description: This discussion looks at the changing needs for individual accident and sickness insurance, including coverage for older people [ages 65 and over]. The discussion seeks to answer: What changes in the scope of and market for individual accident and sickness insurance have taken place in recent years, and what revisions of policies and marketing procedures have been made or are indicated to meet changing needs? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: In light of nonprofit health insuring organizations converting from nonprofit to for profit status and with the flurry of health maintenance organization M&A activity, this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses actuarial techniques used to measure 'value' and the issues surrounding such valuation.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored some of the general issues applicable to the appointed actuary, particularly from a health insurance perspective: 1. What it means. 2. How it developed. 3. What are the duties? 4. To whom is the appointed actuary responsible? 5. What kind of product the appointed actuary has to produce?

Description: This is a brief report that summarizes recent changes in the prevalent medical loss ratio methodologies and also looks at some of the more recent experience of health insurers that filed medical loss ratio reports.

Description: In the last 10 to 15 years, new health insurance programs have proliferated in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The reason for this boom has been, basically, the need for insurance companies to identify and implement new or additional lines of insurance business in order to match or exceed the increased numbers of competitors now working in these markets. This is combined with the stronger reinsurance capacity that these insurance companies had access to, which can be attributed to the need for increased reinsurance protection that arose a number of years ago, when many insurance and reinsurance companies were seeking larger volumes of businesses based on the expected growth potential of the region.

Description: CDHP reserve levels claim, policy and premium reserves. New reserve technique for ASO plan sponsor reserves. Issue No. 48.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the importance of a monitoring system with flexible capabilities for managing health insurance and health insurance rate regulation addressing established guidelines for lifetime loss ratios.