Health Reports to the NAIC

Exchanges Work Group comments to the National Assocation of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Exchanges (B) Subgroup regarding its white paper on adverse selection and exchanges created through the Affordable Care Act. (April 5, 2011)
Long-Term Care Practice Note Work Group letter to the NAIC regarding the formation of a new work group in charge of updating the Academy's 2003 practice note, Long-Term Care Insurance Compliance with the NAIC LTCI Model Regulation Relating to Rate Stability. The letter also outlines the proposed tasks and timeline for completion. (February 17, 2011)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup letter to the NAIC's Health RBC Working Group asking it to sponsor and administer a survey of carriers that write Medicare Part D business. The survey is designed to gather additional data that may support any needed changes to the formula. (February 9, 2011)
Life, Health, and Property/Casualty RBC committees joint report in response to the NAIC's request for assistance with the Solvency Modernization (SMI) project on the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital (RBC) formulas. The report discusses the intended/expected safety levels for RBC and identifies risks that are missing from the RBC formulas. (January 31, 2011)
Academy report to the NAIC in response to its request for assistance with the Solvency Modernization project on the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital (RBC) formula. (January 31, 2011)
Premium Review Work Group comment letter on the NAIC Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee's exposure draft of a rate filing disclosure form that is intended to facilitate the reporting of unreasonable rate increases to HHS. (November 5, 2010)
Joint Committee on Retiree Health and the Pension Accounting Committee comments to the NAIC regarding the exposure draft of SSAP 92 (OPEBs) and proposed revisions to SSAP 89 (pensions). (October 30, 2010)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee comments to the Actuarial Standards Board regarding a proposed revision to ASOP 28. (October 30, 2010)
P/C Risk-Based Capital Committee response to the NAIC's request on risk-based capital issues. (October 1, 2010)
Deferred Tax Asset DTA Bridge Group request for an interim report to the NAIC Capital Adequacy Task Force showing the appropriate treatment of the Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) in the Risk-Based Capital formulas for Life, Property / Casualty (P&C), and Health. (September 30, 2010)
Health Solvency Work Group comment letter to the chair of the NAIC's Capital Adequacy Task Force regarding the evaluation of the current health risk-based capital covariance formula calculation for potential changes to the calculation or methodology. (June 11, 2010)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee comment letter to the chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) Blanks Working Group on the proposed changes to the NAICs Health Annual Statement Instructions. (May 21, 2010)
Long-Term Care Principle-Based Work Group progress report to the NAIC's Accident and Health Working Group regarding the Academy's ongoing work on a stochastic model for long-term care insurance. An initial prototype of the model has been developed and is currently being reviewed by several members of the work group. (August 27, 2008)
Health RBC Trend Test Work Group report to the NAIC on evaluating the effectiveness of three proposed trend tests. (August 26, 2008)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee comments on proposed changes in the actuarial opinion instructions for NAIC health annual statements. (February 19, 2008)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup revision proposals to the NAIC life and health RBC instructions for Medicare Part D to address a potential unintended consequence related to the Authorized Control Level (ACL) RBC results. (June 3, 2007)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup comment letter to NAIC's Health Risk Based Capital Working Group on a possible update of proposed risk factors previously developed by the Academy's Medicare Part D subgroup. (May 3, 2007)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter to Julia T. Philips, the Chair of the NAIC's Health Risk-Based Capital (RBC) Working Group, that comments on a proposal made by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida regarding the treatment in the NAIC RBC formulas of medical insurance products for which active life reserves are held. The letter provided initial thoughts on the matter and seeks further input from the NAIC in light of these thoughts. (May 3, 2007)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee comments to the NAIC on a proposal to include a trend test in the health RBC formula. (May 3, 2007)
LTC Principle-based Work Group presentation providing an update to the A&HWG and requesting feedback on work to date by the LTC Principle-based Work Group. (March 31, 2007)