Description: This discussion on major medical expense insurance examines the trends in the types of plans sold, popularity of the comprehensive type of medical expense insurance plan, special problems, and dependent coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This discussion focuses on sickness insurance and associated issues. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss recent developments in expanding major medical expense coverage under individual policies and group policies, and progress made in providing hospital, surgical and medical expense coverage beyond age 65. Guaranteed renewability and substandard issues are discussed.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to health insurance coverage at older ages including levels of coverage, underwriting issues, expense levels, and renewability provisions.

Description: This is a brief report that summarizes recent changes in the prevalent medical loss ratio methodologies and also looks at some of the more recent experience of health insurers that filed medical loss ratio reports.

Description: This chapter focuses on creating practical models that aid in the prediction of the risk of readmission to a specific hospital within 30 days of discharge for Medicare patients, to aid in the identification and stratification of at-risk patients for hospitals considering building an intervention program in a cost-effective manner. For readers who wish to develop their own predictive model, a dataset is provided on the Actexmadriver.com website, and R code is provided in the appendix to this chapter.

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: This discussion looks at the effects in Canada that Provincial Government Hospital Plans are having on insurance company plans providing hospital benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.