Description: A study of claims cost variation by policy duration fo rindividual medical insurance. The report presents results for single vs. family contracts with long-form underwriting, based on approximately $1.3 billion in incurred claims data provided by seven carriers, for incurral years 2001 through 2003.

Description: This presentation on the subject of Defined-Contribution Health Plans, covers reasons to move to a DC health plan, advantages and disadvantages, comparison to DC retirement plans, plan designs, pricing, risk considerations, and the regulatory and tax environment. 2001 SOA Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictive accuracy of the commercially available claims-based risk assessment tools under different sets of conditions and with different sets of available information.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2001, Issue No. 40.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, June 1998, Issue No. 35.

Description: A Simplified Method for Calculating Contract Reserves for individual medical insurance. From Health Section News, June 1998, Issue No. 35.

Description: Panelists discuss various legislative activities at the federal and state levels that affect health organizations doing business in the commercial market including: patient protection, uninsured, coverage mandates, genetic testing and mental health parity. Also included are case studies of New Jersey and New York's approach to coverage for the uninsured. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 80

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Leigh M. Wachenheim from Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

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.