Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: The interplay between technology and design to create safe, comfortable and thriving environments for aging in place and managing care costs.

Description: The speech was mainly introduced the current government long-term care insurance in China, analyzed the potential opportunities and challenges of commercial homecare insurance driven by the aging of the society and the pressure of social insurance. Briefly introduced some innovated explorations conducted by our company Fulfill Homecare in these couple of years, with some insurance companies, to bring some thoughts to the innovative insurance product design of commercial care insurance.

Description: This session is about managed-care provider networks: organizing networks, information needs, monitoring utilization and risk/reward methodologies. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Discussion of various alternatives for financing health care.: It discussed providers,the uninsured employers of uninsured workers, employers through taxes , assessment on health insurance and general revenues.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 This session discusses continuing care retirement communities and other provider organizations, such as nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and residential facilities. This panel discusses trends in the retirement housing industry and practices and opportunities for more effective management of the cost of care.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: In the current value-based care marketplace, there are various reimbursement models that tie payments for care delivery to the quality of the care provided. The purpose is clear – change reimbursement to focus on value by rewarding better outcomes and lower spending. However, implementation it is complex, and many challenges emerge during this transition for both providers and payers.Providers often lack sophisticated actuarial capabilities or clear understanding of the connection between finance and clinical operations. For these reasons, they enter risk arrangements without knowing how to strategically manage and mitigate risks and fully transfer the reimbursement changes into clinical decisions. For payers, a truly viable value-based payment model that rewards the most valuable providers needs a multidisciplinary approach and a solid financial model. Such a model also requires transparency and a clear transitional road map for providers to encourage participation and collaboration. In this session, we will discuss lessons learned through case studies of working with both providers and payers on value-based care issues. We will illustrate the current state of the complex financial structures by presenting examples of value-based financial models, feasibility analyses, and strategies to design a payment model beneficial to both providers and payers. We will also explore the clinical collaboration necessary to make it all work, as well as present some best practice strategies to facilitate strong payer-provider collaboration.

Description: While there are many approaches currently being taken to transform health care, to be successful, we know that leading and planning for quality improvement is a science. Data is the common denominator as healthcare organizations establish best-practices, and ultimately overcome unintended variation through strong analytic systems. Health care leaders require specialized data analysis education and training to hone their skills in understanding and managing clinical variation. The problem with unexplained variation in healthcare is that it negatively impacts clinical outcomes, increases the cost of care, and diminishes value for patients. In this session, Dr. Ted James (BIDMC and Harvard Medical School Faculty) will explain how actuaries can offer practical solutions that provide insights into variations in clinical practice that cannot be explained by differences in medical conditions or patient preferences.

Description: As technology continues to advance and consumers' preferences constantly change, the need for insurance to be sold at more competitive prices has become apparent, forcing the Broker channel to adjust its business model and also creating a new opportunity for the Direct-to-Consumer channel. The presenter will examine how various channels have co-existed in the past, and evaluate how they will evolve and co-exist in the future. The discussion will also include an analysis of a channel strategy to optimize results for the growth of a company. Presenters will include representative from the following distribution channels