Description: Discusses types and methods of analysis of morbidity experience, reserves, and policy form drafting issues.

Description: In this paper, fuzzy sets - collections of objects whose boundaries are not precisely defined - are used to model the selection process in group health insurance. Both single and multiple options plans are discussed. Discussions of this paper are included.

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: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of wellness programs on medical plan experience/non-medical plan experience, health status as a pricing variable, likely future developments.