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American Academy of Actuaries
May 22, 2012
"Because Medicare plays a critically important role in ensuring that older and certain disabled Americans have access to health care, the American Academy of Actuaries' Medicare Steering Committee urges action to restore the long-term solvency and financial sustainability of the program. The sooner such corrective measures are enacted, the more flexible the approach and the more gradual the implementation can be. Failure to act now will necessitate far more drastic actions later."
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American Academy of Actuaries
Oct. 6, 2004
4 pages. Excerpt: This letter presents the comments of the American Academy of Actuaries' Medicare Steering Committee regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS's) proposed regulations on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program (CMS-4069-P).
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American Academy of Actuaries
June 20, 2013
"Because Medicare plays a critically important role in ensuring that older and certain disabled Americans have access to health care, the American Academy of Actuaries' Medicare Steering Committee urges action to restore the long-term solvency and financial sustainability of the program. The sooner such corrective measures are enacted, the more flexible the approach and the more gradual the implementation can be. Failure to act now will necessitate far more drastic actions later."
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Joint Committee on Retiree Health, American Academy of Actuaries
Apr. 27, 2006
5 pages. Excerpt: Below we have described four principal approaches an employer can use to provide prescription drug benefits to its retirees and have a portion of the cost funded, either directly or indirectly, by payments from the federal government.
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Risk Sharing Subcommittee, and Individual and Small Group Markets Committee, American Academy of Actuaries
Jan. 30, 2023
10 pages. "[The] Committees are commenting on risk adjustment, lifelong permanent conditions, gender dysphoria hierarchical condition category, meaningful difference & non-standardized plans, exchanges directing re-enrollment for cost-sharing reduction (CSR)-eligible enrollees, the implications of a special enrollment period (SEP) that mirrors the Medicare Advantage SEP for the loss of a significant provider, prohibiting issuers participating in exchanges on the federal platform from terminating dependent child coverage, age calculation standards for stand-alone dental plan issuers, and network adequacy."
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American Academy of Actuaries
Jan. 12, 2004
Excerpt: On behalf of the American Academy of Actuaries'1 Joint Committee on Retiree Health, we would like to take this opportunity to indicate our support for the proposed FASB Staff Position (FSP) on ... FAS 106 ... deferring any accounting for the effects of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. Members of this committee have already been asked by plan sponsors to provide actuarial insight into both the new law and its impact on compliance with FAS 106.
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Medicare Committee, American Academy of Actuaries
Aug. 28, 2025
"[T]his issue brief ... examines the findings of the Medicare Trustees Report with respect to program solvency and sustainability.... The longer that corrective measures are delayed, the worse the financial challenges will become and, in turn, the greater the burden that is likely to be imposed on beneficiaries, providers, and taxpayers."
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American Academy of Actuaries
May 12, 2006
8 pages. Excerpt: Each year, the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Funds report to Congress on the trust funds' financial condition. .... This issue brief examines more closely the findings of the Trustees' Report. The American Academy of Actuaries' Medicare Steering Committee concludes that the Medicare program faces serious short-term and long-term financing problems.
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American Academy of Actuaries
Mar. 11, 2013
"To address the problems with the current [fee for service (FFS)] benefit design, proposals have been developed that would combine a new cost-sharing limit with a unified Part A and Part B deductible.... These changes would result in more coordinated Part A and B cost-sharing requirements and would bring the FFS benefit design more in line with the structure of private health insurance programs."
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Pension Committee, American Academy of Actuaries
June 12, 2013
"The HI trust fund will be depleted in 2026, two years later than projected last year. Total Medicare expenditures will make up an increasing share of federal outlays and the gross domestic product (GDP), threatening the program's long-term sustainability. An alternative scenario illustrates the potential understatement of current-law projections if currently scheduled provider payment reductions are not realized."
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