Description: Describes a process to develop a good forecast. Also provides an example.

Description: Synopsis of the report of the SOA Medical Effectiveness Task Force, which discusses the concept of health plan performance measurement and the contribution actuaries can make to this.

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.

Description: September’s Actuary contained an excellent summary by Drew Davidoff of renewal rating for small group medical business. Among the techniques he describes are age, sex, and area rating, experience rating using credibility, experience rating using tiers, examination of the diagnoses in the claim file, and initial and reentry medical underwriting.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.

Description: This is the second article in a four–part series. In this article, the industry's products are examined.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: This article provides an in-depth discussion of how subsidies are an integral part of affordability for individual health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and, ultimately, impact the viability of the market.

Description: This article is about a paper on group medical area factors. From The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 8

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1975, Volume 9, No. 10, discusses medical expense insurance. This article addresses the following questions: Why have group claim frequency rates remained high? What can be expected for the future? What management actions are appropriate? This presentation is one actuary's attempt to answer these questions.