Health Practice Council comment letter on Colorado Senate Bill 21-169 which is aimed to protect consumers from unfair discrimination in insurance practices. The comments focus on potential impacts to health insurance.
( )The ASOP No. 6 Practice Note Work Group's ASOP No. 6—Development of Age-Specific Retiree Health Cost Assumptions, Including Applications to Pooled and Non-Pooled Health Plans practice note, which provides information on valuing retiree health benefit plans.
( )Academy President Thomas A. Campbell’s letter of recommendation for Annette V. James as a candidate for appointment to the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force as put forward in a presidential executive order, Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery.
( )Health Practice Council answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) on COVID-19’s potential effects on health care spending and the health insurance system.
( )Members of the Telehealth Work Group presented on the topic of telehealth along with the debut of their new issue brief with moderator Cori Uccello, senior health fellow, to a policy audience of Capitol hill staff.
( )Telehealth Work Group has released a new issue brief exploring the perspectives of the patients and providers, while also analyzing the financial, legal and regulatory aspects associated with telehealth.
( )The Long-Term Care Valuation Work Group presented updates on the mortality and lapse tables development.
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The Group Life Waiver Valuation Table Work Group updated the Health Actuarial Task Force of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on group life waiver of premium mortality and recovery tables development.
( )Health Practice Council comments in response to the Actuarial Standards Board’s (ASB) second exposure draft of a proposed actuarial standard of practice (ASOP) titled Setting Assumptions.
( )This presentation was a session at the SOA Health Meeting where panelists reviewed the proliferation of proposals to expand access to public health insurance plans, either to strengthen insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or to replace the ACA marketplaces or other health insurance programs altogether. Panelists discussed general approaches for expanding access to public plans and their potential implications.
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