LTC Reserve Work Group outline of the proposed near-term and long-term objectives as they relate to the NAIC's request for the Academy to review the reserve methodology for LTC insurance. (
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Health Liquidity Work Group status update to the NAIC on a set of potential ratios to be used to test for health organization liquidity. The ratios would be used in a “safe harbor” test. (
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Health Practice Council and Pension Practice Council letter to GASB discussing concerns actuaries have about two aspects of the proposed standard, including the use of a common premium concept to determine whether an employer is subject to the accounting and reporting aspects of this standard, and, the use of an alternative (non-actuarial) approach that could be used by small employers. (
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EEOC-ADEA and Retiree Health Work Group letter that provides a list of potential issues that could complicate implementation of retiree medical safe harbors are placed into three categories — rating and measurement, plan interpretation, and other. (
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Life Products Committee comments on the proposed Genetic Discrimination Model Act to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Life Committee as it considers the proposal. (
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Health Practice Council letter to Congress offers the Academy as a resource on questions related to Medicare and prescription drugs, and notes that adding any additional benefits, in particular a prescription drug benefit, without addressing the financing of the entire Medicare program would be unwise given the uncertainties for future funding of the current benefit structure. (
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Health Plan Work Group comments on the association health plan (AHP) provisions in Title IV, Subtitle B of the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (H.R. 2563), which would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish a new “Part 8—Rules Governing Association Health Plans. (
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Health Liquidity Work Group status update to the NAIC on a set of potential ratios to be used to test for health organization liquidity. The ratios would be used in a “safe harbor” test. (
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Medicare Steering Committee comment letter on proposed changes in the Medicare+Choice risk adjustment methodology and reporting requirements for diagnostic information for use beginning in 2004. (
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