Health Practice Council backgrounder on issues that should be considered in efforts to design a government-sponsored medical reinsurance program. (
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Memo to the NAIC from the Medicare Part D Subgroup with proposed health RBC instruction and health RBC formula changes, proposed life RBC instruction and life RBC formula changes, and explanatory slides.
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Subgroup on LTC Experience Forms letter that addresses several issues raised by the NAIC in response to the Academy's Long-Term Care Experience Subgroup's May 20, 2005 letter with proposed revisions to the LTC experience reporting instructions and forms.
( )Federal Health Committee letter in response to HR 2355, the Health Care Choice Act of 2005, which contained language that would allow a non-actuary to offer statements of opinions on reserves. The letter recommended only a member of the Academy be permitted to provide such an opinion. (
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Committee on Federal Health Issues comment letter on Coverage and Reimbursement of Genetic Tests and Services, a report of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society, and raises issues pertaining to genetic testing in general, health insurance markets, cost effectiveness data, and the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (
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Association Health Plans Work Group issue brief examining some common questions about Association Health Plans. The issue brief also addresses some possible unintended consequences and related concerns that could arise if the creation of AHPs is not approached carefully. (
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Medical Reinsurance Work Group issue brief providing a primer on the current commercial medical reinsurance market. The issue brief also outlines some of the issues policymakers should consider when designing and implementing a government-sponsored medical reinsurance program. (
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Mental Health Parity Work Group original issue brief providing a description of mental health parity requirements and how group insurance plans have responded to those requirements. (
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Committee on Federal Health Issues testimony outlining several key factors for consideration in the debate over the proper regulation of genetic information especially with respect to health insurance.
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Rate Filing Task Force report concerning the individual health market and outlines four alternative regulatory solutions to the closed block problem, called Prefunding, Inter-Block Subsidy-- Durational Pooling, Inter-Block Subsidy-- Rate Compression, and Individual Market Pools. The computer model being presented analyzes the result of each of those closed block solutions.
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