Health Practice Council comments on legislation that was introduced in both the House and Senate to regulate the use of genetic information, particularly with respect to health insurance. (
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Retiree Health Insurance Work Group letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) about the actuarial measurement of retiree health benefits. (
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Health Plan Work Group comments on the Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 660 and S. 545), which would amend ERISA to establish a new “Part 8—Rules Governing Association Health Plans. (
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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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Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter proposing several amendments to paragraphs within SSAP 54. (
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Academy comments on the proposal developed and approved on a preliminary basis by the NAIC’s Speed to Market Working Group that pertain to the definitions of “minimum experience and education requirements” for actuaries contained in the preface to the proposal. (
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Academy letter on proposed standards for privacy of health information to the Department of Health and Human Services. (
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Task Force on HORBC comments that offer a counterproposal regarding the redesign of the Property & Equipment page. The counterproposal would achieve the objectives of attaining compliance with the new Health blank and reducing the amount of data collected, and it would leave the NAIC working group flexibility to make a change to the HCDA risk factor in 2001. (
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Medicare Reform Task Force letter to Senate about the debate around changes to the Medicare program, including proposals to provide prescription drug coverage to seniors. (
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Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force letter request for NAIC assistance in narrowing the scope of the Academy's Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force work on developing guidelines for filing health insurance rates with state regulatory agencies. (
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Academy comments to HHS on the proposed federal regulations regarding the privacy of individually identifiable health information (IIHI). (
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Health Committee comment letter to members of the House and Senate on the 1999 Medicare Trustees Report. (
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