Description: This session provides an overview of industry approaches to valuing the liabilities of nontraditional health products such as specific and employer stop loss, provider excess and critical illness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 117

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. The panelists discussed the RBC formula treatment for health products for the life and the health organizations and the managed care organizations. They also covered what the health terms look like in the casualty RBC formula.

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. 56

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss Long Term Care Insurance pricing including the appropriate assumptions for claim costs, mortality, interest, lapse rates and required surplus, plus regulatory issues and the ability to obtain and implement rate increases.

Description: This session 75PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting analyzes derivatives contained in various insurance products and techniques used to hedge the derivative exposure. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 75PD.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses the outlook for U.S. government statistics after budget costs and restraints, statistics of income, outlook for linked studies among the different agencies, plans for a 1987 National Medical Expenditures Survey, and the use of government statistics in marketing studies.

Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on methods and considerations that are currently being used in analyzing various risks of concern to the health valuation actuary. The session looks at concepts and types of risks, considerations and influences affecting the actuary, formulas and methods for evaluating risk, and the present status of the health insurance valuation actuary concept.

Description: Panel discusses the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare failed agreement, but still examines the draft of the report, as well as other proposals for changes in Medicare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Industry representatives address the market need for and acceptance of life and long-term care LTC combination products and the issues for carriers to consider regarding developing, marketing, and distributing this emerging product. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 13PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: This session will cover the definition of a risk-taking health entity, the kinds of risk and ways to measure it. Included is an update from the Risk-based Capital Task Force. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.