Description: The American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a risk-base capital formula for health insurers submitted its preliminary report to the NAIC Health Organizations Risk-Based Capital Working Group.

Description: This article discusses Medical Savings Accounts MSA as proposed in federal legislation and the problems that actuaries will face in predicting their use.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about research papers for FSA credit, specifically mentions The Application of Fuzzy Sets to Group Health Underwriting

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.

Description: In this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting, panelists discuss how managed care dental programs work, the actuarial issues, quality issues, and the perspective of the dentist.

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: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss Medicare Supplement insurance issues, including competitive dynamics with Medicare+Choice and Medicare HMOs, rate increase issues, prescription drug coverage and potential changes to benefit structures.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting covers current and future issues relating to individual and small group medical insurance. This includes implications of market consolidation, regulatory issues and demographic trends. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 5PD.

Description: Panelists discuss recent acquisitions and mergers from a variety of perspectives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 90

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 57