Medicare Steering Committee letter discusses issues related to eligibility and enrollment, benefits and beneficiary protections, submission of bids and monthly beneficiary premiums, payments to prescription drug plan sponsors and Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations, etc. Comments on issues related to actuarial equivalence in a separate letter. (
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Actuarial Equivalence Work Group letter to CMS regarding actuarial equivalence issues related to prescription drug plans (PDPs), Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, Medicare supplement plans, and retiree health benefits. (
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Long Term Care Risk Based Capital Work Group report on the review of the Managed Care Organization RBC formulas for LTC describes the source of data, methodology, analysis, and recommendations. It reflects revisions based on feedback from members of the NAIC subgroup after the interim report was released in June 2003. (
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Joint Committee on Retiree Health letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) on accounting by governmental employers for other postemployment benefits. (
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Joint Committee on Retiree Health comments to FASB opportunity to comment on the proposed FASB staff position (FSP) 106-b, Accounting and Disclosure Requirements Related to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. (
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Health Savings Account Subgroup comment letter on Notice 2004-2 issued by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, which provides guidance on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). (
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Health Savings Account Subgroup comments on IRS Notice 2004-2, which provides guidance on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) provisions in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. (
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Health Practice Council letter to House and Senate conferees, who are reconciling to Medicare Rx bills, that offers assistance in assessing the actuarial implications of changes to the Medicare program. (
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Retiree Health Work Group comments related to the proposed rule by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and retiree health benefits. (
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Long-Term Care Reserve Work Group letter to NAIC that illustrates the anticipated impact of various hypothetical changes in the mortality, voluntary lapse, interest and morbidity valuation assumptions on net renewal valuation premiums and contract reserves by policy duration. (
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Long-Term Care Risk-Based Capital Work Group letter to the Deputy Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania responding to concerns regarding total asset adequacy as it relates to the Long-Term Care RBC Work Group's interim report. (
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Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter addressing general principles that should be considered in the development of and addressed by premium deficiency reserves and gross premium valuations. (
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Health Practice Council letter on the general risk sharing approaches available, summarizes the risk-sharing provisions in the Senate and House bills, and provides specific comments on the risk-sharing approaches in the Senate and House bills. (
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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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Long-Term Care RBC Work Group interim report on the Managed Care Organization Risk Based Capital formulas for Long Term Care (LTC) insurance products and described the source of data, methodology, analysis, and recommendations. (
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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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