Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, October 2002, Issue No. 44.

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

Description: Analysis of diagnosis and pharmacy-based methods of health risk assessment. Issue No. 44.

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

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: At the beginning of 1999, a new model regulation is expected to be approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and will regulate risk-based capital for managed care organizations. Panelists describe the regulation and offer insights into the why, wherefore, and whereto. They consider the potential impact of the new regulation on the current life insurance company risk-based capital regulation that governs traditional health carriers.

Description: This brief article describes an actuarial model of continuing care retirement communities [CCRC] that was developed. The model uses a set of multiple-decrement, multi-life, multi-status functions to describe the population of a CCRC.

Description: This session 99PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting summary: Insurers today are looking for new ways to use currently available experience data to better predict future costs. Both the federal and state governments are looking at the possibility of using prescription drug data because it is more available and often of higher quality than other experience data. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 99PD.