Description: The panel offers a summary of the Medicare Modernization Act signed into law in 2003, which implemented sweeping changes to the Medicare program. Topics include Medicare Advantage, the impact on Medicare Supplement, Part D, and the impact on retiree health plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3, Session 127

Description: In this session, presenters discuss how regulators evaluate Medicare Supplement filings and how carriers can improve their filings. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 78

Description: Panel discusses the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare failed agreement, but still examines the draft of the report, as well as other proposals for changes in Medicare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss current implications of the MMA on Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement plans, and introduce the new Part D prescription drug benefit. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 107

Description: This session is about Medicare resource-based relative schedule [RBRVS], volume performance standards and balance billing limits. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1.

Description: Changes introduced by various Medicare Alternative Payment Models and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) have accelerated an existing market trend of shifting some of what has traditionally been considered “insurance risk” to providers. The Provider Risk Sharing Boot Camp will give attendees deeper insights into methods, current thinking, and alternative solutions that actuaries can use to help providers understand and manage the financial and actuarial risks that they are taking, many for the first time.

Description: This session is about compliance with NAIC requirements and Medicare-Select products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.