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Scott
M. Snow, FSA, MAAA, is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries
(F.S.A.), a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (M.A.A.A.),
and the President of S. M. Snow & Associates, Inc. This company,
established in 1989, has been providing the most comprehensive
and worthwhile seminars and in-house training programs available
in the managed care / group health insurance industry since
1995. Our programs cover virtually every aspect of underwriting,
pricing, product design, and profitability management.
Mr. Snow
also conducts comprehensive seminars for employers who are
trying to reduce their health plan costs, brokers, agents,
and benefits consultants. He has over 35 years of industry
experience and is one of the foremost experts in the group
health insurance industry.
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Since 1995,
Mr. Snow has conducted over 170 seminars and nearly 100 in-house
training programs. He's trained thousands of underwriters, actuaries,
sales professionals, and senior executives from over five hundred
HMOs, practically every Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in the country,
and many Commercial Insurance companies. He has also thousands of
employer groups, brokers, agents, and consultants. To date, Mr.
Snow has trained over ten thousand insurance professionals.
From 1989-1995,
S. M. Snow & Associates provided actuarial consulting services to
the managed care industry. Consulting services performed for group
health insurers included product development, product pricing, developing
rating factors and underwriting guidelines, refining experience
rating formulas, performing detailed profitability studies, conducting
market research, sales training, and performing product management
in support of profitability. He also provided consulting services
to self funded employer groups to assist them with their cost control
efforts and benefit design issues.
From 1976-1989,
Mr. Snow worked in the commercial insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield,
and HMO environments. His responsibilities included the analysis
of cost and utilization trends, financial projections by product
line, rate impact analyses, rate filing preparation, unpaid claim
liability development, financial forecasting, refining underwriting
guidelines, training the sales force, detailed product monitoring
and profitability analyses, the development and implementation of
product enhancements, and product feasibility studies. His duties
also included pricing, involvement with alternative health care
delivery systems, implementing and maintaining a competitor intelligence
network, developing comprehensive field sales office profitability
and effectiveness studies, market research/analysis, and making
presentations to senior management.
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