Description: Health insurance company assets and liabilities have evolved since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010. The ACA fundamentally rearranged how commercial health insurance is funded by integrating federal premium subsidies and pass-throughs together with a marketplace interwoven with transfer payments among stakeholders. The impacts of these programs can be seen in specific accounting items on the balance sheets of health insurance companies over the past 10 years. Their emergence follows three primary trends: (1) balance sheet items tend to be larger and take longer to settle, (2) there are more interactions among items, and (3) the final settlement amounts are more uncertain.

Description: This interactive panel discussion will cover perspectives on:</p><ul><li>the evolution of AG51 requirements, including practical considerations for implementation</li><li>the general evolution of long-term care insurance regulation</li><li>how both the public and private sector can help invigorate sales of long-term care insurance

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.

Description: While most actuaries work for companies and have as a primary objective the financial success of their employers, regulatory actuaries primarily serve the public interest. In part one of this presentation, we will explore the role of actuaries whose priority is to serve the public interest. Regulation is developed by a deliberative process that includes regulators, the American Academy of Actuaries, trade associations and the companies that will be affected by the regulation. In part two of this session, we will present a series of vignettes each focusing on recent updates to the Valuation Manual. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will have a deeper appreciation of what goes on behind the scenes in the development of regulation.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about risk-based capital, NAIC activities, and how Blue Cross/Blue Shield&#39;s initiatives intertwine with the model bill on RBC that the NAIC has proposed.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss risk based capital for health organizations including issues specific to insurers and HMOs. Formulas being proposed by the American Academy of Actuaries are discussed.

Description: This session at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting provides instructions on methods used for calculating health insurance contract and deficiency reserves including a review of the NAIC Health Reserve Guidance Manual.

Description: This presentation is a Teaching Session, number 6TS, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. Late in 1999, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] adopted Codification of Statutory Accounting Principles. With a targeted uniform compliance date of January 1, 2001, insurers need to focus their attention on the implementation impacts associated with codification. The instructors provide a brief introduction to codification, and discuss the impacts that codification might have on life insurance companies, including: changes in accounting treatment and their impact on surplus and risk-based capital required changes in operational policies and procedures and changes in the annual and quarterly statement reporting process. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: This article highlights features of the SOA&#39;s Regulatory Web Resource. The intent is to encourage greater use of the Resource among section members.

Description: Panelists provide updates on: [1] NAIC activities on statutory reporting and accounting changes, [2] new FASB Statements 94, 95, 96, and 97, and [3] one firm&#39;s experiences implementing these changes. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.