Description: This paper describes the development of the net annual claim costs, net premiums, and reserve factors that comprise the 1974 Medical Expense Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: Realizing the impact of medical errors on the U.S. health care system, the Health Section commissioned a research project to measure the annual frequency of medical errors and their total measurable direct and indirect cost to the economy.

Description: A preview of the contents of the latest issue, including essays & interviews related to health care reform, provider reimbursements, rate filing review, and medical errors.

Description: The Experience Study Rate Errors paper discusses, in depth, the errors that arise from the use of two partial rate years, such as policy years or years of age, to cover one calendar year.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to outline certain questions involved in the analysis of the experience emerging from the operation of Major Medical Expense insurance plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This is a report on a special study of Major Medical Expense insurance by the Group Morbidity Committee. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: Complete listing of the tables used in the study to analyze the research data. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: Papers: Multi-Population Longevity Models: A Spatial Random Field Approach– Nhan Huynh, Mike Ludkovski, Ph.D. - University of California at Santa Barbara, Howard Zail - Elucider, LLC. The Application of Affine Processes in Cohort Mortality Risk Models – Zhiping Huang, Michael Sherris, FSA, FIAA, FIA, Andres M. Villegas Ramirez, Ph.D., Jonathan Ziveyi, Ph.D. - UNSW Australia

Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting presents medical advances, common diseases and the resulting trends for the future on longevity and morbidity risk, underwriting trends and measuring the impacts of the changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.