Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session deals with the use of reinsurance in the strategy of carriers' approaches to the long-term-care marketplace. Specifically, it discusses the market potential of LTC and the benefits of reinsurer expertise, smoothing of claims variability and protection from excess risk, the pros and cons of selling another carrier's plan, and types of reinsurance.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Discusses three key factors related to catastrophic health care events: • Trends in health care delivery and medical technology that are likely to impact catastrophic care costs • Methods of cost and risk control through early identification and specialized medical management • Modeling the cost of catastrophic events on health insurance programs

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discussion covers: how hospitals and hospital management companies are increasingly entering traditional indemnity insurance markets, hospital representatives address health care financing from the hospital perspective, the risks and financial incentives from the hospital's perspective, and whether hospitals are marginally pricing their health insurance products.

Description: This presentation from Session 111OF of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting covers the new medical technologies and how they affect the price of medicine, the delivery of health care, the cost of care, claims handling, utilization, and cost management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of long-term-care insurance. They present basic information relating to how the product works, unique pricing and risk considerations, marketing, and reserve and capital requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 48

Description: Panelelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting discuss risk management for long-term care insurance, the design of long-term care morbidity studies, LTC morbidity trends, and the impact of morbidity on plan design.

Description: Under the new long term care model regulation, initial filing requirements include a statement regarding underwriting practices, which makes an actuary's awareness of underwriting techniques even more important. This session discusses underwriting tools and strategies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 112OF

Description: This panel discussion presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis discussed competition in health care delivery from the perspective of what was happening in Minnesota, a key HMO state. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This 1991 panel session discussion is a progress report of the Society of Actuaries' Long-Term Care [LTC] Experience Committee. The presentation is organized around three principle areas of the Committee's activities. The first area is noninsurance company experience. The second area is the Committee's 1984-89 study of intercompany insurance experience of monoline long-term care health insurance products. The third area is the Committee's efforts to develop the experience of continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.