AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

Federal Insurance Office and recommendation of adding actuary to Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance; comments re: modernizing insurance regulations; and capital regulations for insurers.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); President of the U.S.; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

Retirement RET

Retirement USA bill (S. 1972) regarding mortality experience; GAAP and pension funding rules in Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act; multiemployer pension programs under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 sunset provisions; comments on IRS Notice 2014-5; cash balance plans and lifetime income, hybrid pension plan regulations, and related pension actuarial issues; and military retirement plan reforms.

Contacted: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; President of the U.S.; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE

Bills named: S. 1972 (113th)

Health Issues HCR

Models of health care delivery; risk corridor provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); issues around ACA implementation; long-term care health financing; rate reviews and proposed list of changes to Unified Rate Review Template.

Contacted: SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Treasury, Dept of; President of the U.S.; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare eligibility age requirements; Medicare premium support design considerations; Medicaid exchange issues and Medicare exchange rate reviews.

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; President of the U.S.; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Insurance INS

Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act S. 1846 and S. 1926 (bill to delay implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012), and H.R. 3370, Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 re: actuarial considerations; and National Flood Insurance Plan premium rate issues; .

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Treasury, Dept of; SENATE; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); President of the U.S.; Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Bills named: H.R. 3370 (113th), S. 1846 (113th), S. 1926 (113th)