Description: Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52. This article presents information from a recently completed client-sponsored survey of hospital contracting best practices. Individual health plans were evaluated using a structured survey document. The primary objective of the survey was to identify best practices that the client sponsor could implement to improve its already better-than-average hospital contracting practices

Description: This session covers how reinsurers and direct writers respond to emerging experience and work together to modify contract terms or take other actions to represent and protect each party's interest. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 6

Description: List of 2024 leadership for Long Term Care Section.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are research projects and reports on long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies for long-term care insurance.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that in today's direct-response marketplace, the consensus is that there are a lot of problems, and some promises, but little, if any, profitability, the panelists discuss long-term care, dread disease, and return of premium [ROP] products, and targeting profitability through research. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: Appendix to the Critical Review of Stochastic Simulation Literature and Applications for Health Actuaries. The Development of a Simulation Model of Primary Prevention Strategies for Coronary Heart Disease

Description: In the face of declining response rates from direct mail campaigns, the author suggests use of the internet to generate leads will be much more efficient and successful.