Description: This is a review of the publication entitled 'Medicare: Health Insurance for the Aged, 1969: Geographic Indices of Reimbursement by State and County.' It is of value to health actuaries because it contains information as to the variation in health insurance claim costs by geographical areas within the United States.

Description: This paper is a primer for actuaries with limited experience in accessing and using public data sets. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: The Society of Actuaries SoA developed this research project to repeat and expand upon its “Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis” study, which was published as a monograph in August of 1997. The general purpose of these studies is to discover and analyze factors affecting claim incidence rates and the distribution of claim sizes. This is the report for the database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for Group Health for the databases themselves.

Description: The second report of a continuous investigation of Group Accident and Health experience, including Hospital and Surgical Expense benefits.

Description: Data requirements for the Society of Actuaries cancer experience study, for those submitting exposure and claim information.

Description: This is the final report of the Committee to Recommend New Disability Tables for Valuation. The report proposes valuation standards to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC for group long-term disability income insurance products GLTD. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: This is a discussion about senior citizens' policies and how they compare to other policies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: In this paper, the authors created a mathematical model which reflects typical relativities by age, duration of disablement, and deferment period for disability risk. The paper is followed by discussions submitted by various reviewers.

Description: This article discusses the problems in estimating the prevalence of HIV infection.

Description: The results of the Large Group Medical Claims Study will be presented. Twenty-six insurers participated and nearly 200,000 claims were studied. Factors of the study included plan type, deductible level, hospitals versus other charges, age and gender of claimant, diagnosis, and ZIP code. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.