Description: Panel discussion of prospects for cost containment of, and alternatives to, fee-for-service health care, and management of health care under national health insurance. Discussion points include cost containment devices, HMOs, economic impact, cost escalation, self-insurance, stop-loss, claims administration, loss of state premium taxes, and Phase 3 tax problems under NH1.

Description: Chairman’s column discussing 2012 accomplishments and 2013 and plans for the Financial Reporting section.

Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Latest summary of LEARN presentations to regulators about reinsurance

Description: This article charts out a basic framework that should be utilized when undergoing optimization of reinsurance arrangements.

Description: A recent Society of Actuaries study calculates safety and stability for current Long Term Care Insurance premiums.

Description: Overview of reinsurance: its purpose and uses, its different forms, and the tax results and issues that can arise in reinsurance transactions.

Description: Forty-one years of catastrophe loss data by state are used in this study to produce a model for rating catastrophe covers for insurers in any region of the Continental United States. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: A research paper that outlines a seamless method of deriving assumptions for modern reserving and solvency capital requirements from a company’s own data.