Description: Objective: to provide benchmarking information to companies address needs of internal stakeholders in cost-effectively conducting/implementing an ORSA process.

Description: Essay where payers desiring to optimize health gains per dollar spent should avoid “across the board” cost sharing, and instead implement a “value based” design that removes barriers/provides incentives to encourage desired behaviors for patients and providers.

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.

Description: Essay reforming management in health care, structure of reimbursement, program management, health information, measurement systems, etc.

Description: Apart from their operating environment and the core risks they help others mitigate, organizations are largely impacted by behaviors--particularly those of their policyholders. This session builds on the first session in this series by considering how medical advances might influence policyholders, while also considering how agents/brokers, product design, and the economy can also be influencers. Weigh whether and to what extent behavioral uncertainties have been adequately integrated into the firms' assessments of business performance, both past and future. The presenters will also highlight activities being undertaken by firms to influence behaviors, in part building on the second session in this series by considering these activities through a regulatory lens. This session is for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of uncertainty due to behavioral factors.

Description: This article describes the allocation of FATCA withholding risk in cross-border reinsurance arrangements and discusses practical considerations in regards to the drafting of those agreements.

Description: Basic Qualification of Life Insurance Contracts under the Internal Revenue Code

Description: Highlight of the ERM Symposium

Description: The Compliance Networking Track leadership team, which was assembled over spring and summer of 2005, includes representatives from large and small LTC insurers. Our mission is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about compliance related issues.

Description: Employer and payers need to actively seek change in the system of mental health care deliveryoperational, clinical, and financial change. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.