Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the types of combination products currently on the market, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in designing new types of combination products.

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. The panelists discussed the RBC formula treatment for health products for the life and the health organizations and the managed care organizations. They also covered what the health terms look like in the casualty RBC formula.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper entitled 'Pricing Long Term Insurance Contracts.' This paper considers several models describing the changes in the needs of the insured for care over time. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, VOL. 1.

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: Panelists discuss emerging valuation-actuary-related issues, including: [1] for long-term-care insurance [LTCI], reserves, risk-based capital [RBC], and new experience forms, [2] for Medicare Part D, several potential future changes, and [3] for health insurance in general, the new Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 85 [SSAP 85] and existing SSAP 84, and current activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] regarding a definition of 'insurance.' Session 27PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Discussion of LTC insurance product developments being spurred by recent demographic and regulatory trends, especially combination products such as LTC benefits with disability income, annuities, and life insurance. Several viable product styles are considered, along with the pros and cons of each.