Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session talks about the Long-Term Care Insurance Valuation Task Force report.

Description: This is the first place submission for the 2018 Student Case Study Challenge.

Description: This session discussion is about health care trends including current experience, measurement problems, effect of selection, and variation by size of group. Also discussed is the new Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule, anticipated cost shifting, and AIDS. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1990 Vol. 16, No. 4A.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about health care trend including current experience, measurement techniques and problems, uses of trend projections, and other considerations such as the impact of selection and the impact of initial and renewal underwriting practices. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This session discusses various techniques for evaluating the success of an existing network as defined by profitability, risk exposure and long-term viability. Topics include network design, provider changes and quality measurement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 92

Description: Answers to questions that have surfaced with regard to recent trends in the use of psychiatric medications, including relative effectiveness compared to prescribing patterns, drivers of prescribing patterns, classification and indications for recently publicized drugs, role of primary care providers, preventive use ofdementia medications, and new developments in the field.

Description: Most actuarial explorations of increased longevity have, quite understandably, focused on its direct financial implications for things like health care costs, retirement systems, and social security or other public policy provisions. But future life extension has many other potential implications, both direct and indirect, for various socioeconomic factors, which in turn have the potential to affect the actuarial valuation of future risk contingencies. This paper examines a sampling of the socioeconomic issues emerging from the possibility of substantially increased longevity. Because of the complexity and interrelatedness of these issues, actuarial and risk modeling of this prospective environment could be a significant challenge.

Description: This session discussion is about overview of current trend experience, techniques of applying trends in rating, risk aspects of different trending methods, and implications of trend cycles for surplus requirements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.