Health Care Insurance Pricing Using Alternating Renewal Processes

Franck Adekambi and Mamane Salha
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Mamane Salha: University of the Witwatersrand

Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2012, vol. 7, issue 1, 14

Abstract: This paper uses an Alternating Renewal Process to model the lengths of the health and sickness periods. The first two moments of the discounted aggregate benefits paid out up to an arbitrary time t are then derived.

Keywords: alternating renewal process; discounted aggregate amount of benefit; moments; health care insurance pricing; force of interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/2153-3792.1136

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