Biography
Professional and Political Experience
Education
Honors and Awards
Published Articles/Studies of Chris Orestis

Biography

Chris Orestis is a 15 year veteran of both the insurance and long term care industries. His career began with senior positions on a number of political campaigns before working in 1993 and 1994 for both the White House and the Senate Majority Leader on Capitol Hill. From that point, he spent the next several years representing the health and life insurance industry as Vice President and Senior Vice President respectively for the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) and the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI). In 1999, he was awarded the Robert R. Neal Medal by HIAA for distinction and service to the industry. Chris co-founded and is CEO of Life Care Funding Group established in 2007. He is an acknowledged national expert on insurance and long term care issues, and is a frequent speaker, featured columnist and Contributing Editor to a number of industry publications, including: National Underwriter, Insurance News Net, Agent's Sales Journal, Life Insurance Selling, Senior Market Advisor, Long-Term Living Magazine, On the Risk, Society of Actuaries, HealthDecisions, ProducersWEB, ISIS, and InsuranceIntell. His Blog on senior living issues (www.lifecarefunding.com/blog) has become one of the more popular forums on the Internet about the impact of the economy and politics on seniors and their housing and long term care needs. Chris Orestis can be reached at 888-670-7773 or by email at chris@lifecarefunding.com.

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Published Articles/Studies of Chris Orestis

• As Large Medicaid Cuts Loom, States Look to Convert Life Insurance Policies
  (published September, 2011 – ProducersWEB)
• A Growing Strategy: Paying for Long Term Care with Life Policies
  (published August, 2011 –Producers Esource.com)
• Financial Focus: Private Funding Solutions for LTC
  (published June, 2011 – Long-Term Living Magazine)
• LTC funding crisis driving a search for alternatives
  (published April, 2011 – Senior Market Advisor)
• Medicaid in Crisis: Treatment of life insurance as an unqualified asset for Medicaid eligibility
  (published March, 2011 – ProducersWEB)
• How Life Insurance can help with LTC costs
  (published March, 2011 – Life Insurance Selling Magazine)
• New Disclosure Requirements for Insurers—What NCOIL’s Life Insurance Consumer Disclosure Model Act Means to Your Client
  (published February, 2011 – Insurance News Net Magazine)
• Life Insurance Consumer Disclosure Law: A Lifeboat in the Eye of the Storm
  (published February, 2011 – Agent’s Sales Journal)
• Life Insurance as a Tool to Pay for Long Term Care
  (published January, 2011 – Agent’s Sales Journal)
• MetLife Exits LTCI Market: Now What?
  (published November, 2010 – Agent’s Sales Journal)
• CBO Projection - Government budgets will not keep pace with consumer demand for long term care spending
  (published July, 2010 - ProducersWEB)
• Ask the Expert: Will a Life Settlement help pay Assisted Living expenses?
  (published June, 2010 - National Underwriter)
• Overcoming America's Long Term Care Crisis with Life Settlements
  (published June, 2010 - Insurance News Net Magazine)
• Electronic Medical Records: Resistance is Futile
  (published March, 2010 - On the Risk)
• Convergence of Life Settlements and Long Term Care: A Funding Solution Emerges
  (published March, 2010 - Insurance News Net Online)
• Life Expectancy Compression: The impact of moving into a long term care facility on length of life
  (published October, 2009 - Insurance News Net Magazine)
• Life Settlements: Legal Rights and Opportunities for Policy Owners
  (published June, 2009 - New York State Bar Association Journal)
• Legal Rights of a Life Insurance Policy Owner
  (published April, 2009 - ProducersWEB)
• The Long Term Care Crisis has Arrived
  (published March, 2009 - On the Risk)
• Life Settlements vs. STOLI: Let's Get the Debate Straight
  (published December, 2008 - ProducersWEB)
• Understanding the Differences between Stranger Owned Life Insurance (STOLI) and Life Settlements
  (published December, 2008 - On the Risk)
• Life Settlements vs. STOLI
  (published December, 2008 - Insurance News Net Magazine)
• Underwriting the "Silver Tsunami"
  (published November, 2008 - ProducersWEB)
• Alternative Pay Plan
  (published October, 2008 - Assisted Living Executive (magazine of ALFA)
• Economic Storms and Quality of Life in the Wake of the "Silver Tsunami"
  (published September, 2008 - ProducersWEB, and ISIS)
• WHITE PAPER - The Silver Tsunami
  (published September, 2008)
• The Silver Tsunami
  (published August, 2008 - Insurance News Net Magazine cover story)
• WHITE PAPER - Life Settlements: Looking for a Calm Financial Harbor in a "Perfect Storm"
  (published June, 2008)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Informals—Turning a Pain into Profits
  (published June, 2008 - On the Risk, and InsuranceNewsNet, June, 2008, ProducersWEB, July, 2008)
• Life Settlements: Protecting the Golden Goose
  (published April, 2008 - Insurance News Net Magazine cover story)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Exploring the Direct-to-Consumer Channel
  (published September, 2007 - On the Risk, and InsuranceNewsNet, September, 2007, ProducersWEB, November, 2007, posted on SmartBrief)
• Aging and Long-Term Care Insurance: A National Policy Perspective
  (published August, 2007 - Society of Actuaries: Long Term Care Section Newsletter, and InsuranceNewsNet, September, 2007, ProducersWEB, September, 2007, posted on SmartBrief)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Remote Underwriting Study 2007 (Underwriting in your Underpants)
  (published June, 2007 - On the Risk)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Understanding the Risks of Private Aviation
  (published March, 2007 - On the Risk and InsuranceNewsNet, July, 2007 World News Network, July, 2007, ProducersWEB, October, 2007)
• INDUSTRY STUDY- Underwriting in your Underpants: Remote Underwriting Study 2006-2007 (Released at 37th Annual MUD Meeting as reported by National Underwriter, January, 2007, and featured by Insurance News Net, January, 2007, InsureIntell, February, 2007, Hot Notes by Hank George, 2007, posted on SmartBrief)
• Bringing Together the Pieces of the Insurance Puzzle by Understanding the Lifecycle of a Policy
  (published February, 2007 - InsuranceNewsNet and HealthDecisions, InsureIntell, April, 2007, ProducersWEB, August, 2007)
• Breaking Down Barriers Between Underwriting and Distribution
  (published January, 2007 – InsuranceNewsNet and InsureIntell, February, 2007; ProducersWEB, July, 2007)
• Overcoming the Underwriting Crunch through Outsourcing
  (published January, 2007 – InsuranceNewsNet and InsureIntell, February, 2007)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Life Outside the Home Office
  (published December, 2006 - On the Risk and InsuranceNewsNet, March, 2007, ProducersWEB, August, 2007)
• Underwriting in the 21st Century: Mastering the APS Paradox
  (published September, 2006 - On the Risk and InsuranceNewsNet, February, 2007, InsureIntell, February, 2007, ProducersWEB, September, 2007)
• Underwriting As A Profit Center: Bringing Together the Pieces of the Puzzle
  (published June, 2006 - On the Risk)
• How Insurance Companies Benefit from Professionally Summarized (APS) Attending Physician Statements
  (published June, 2006 – InsuranceNewsNet and HealthDecisions)
• Underwriting As A Profit Center or How I Survived The 21st Century
  (published December, 2005 - On the Risk)

Public Presentations

• LTC 100 - June, 2009
• National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), Testimony on Consumer Disclosure Legislation - July 9, 2010 (National Meeting, Boston, MA)
• ALFA Senior Living Leadership Forum – September, 2010
• AAHSA (Leading Age) Annual Meeting – November, 2010
• National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), FINAL testimony on Consumer Disclosure Legislation - November, 2010 (National Meeting, Austin, TX)
• AHCA Annual State Executive Directors Meeting – June, 2011
• Senior Market Advisor Annual EXPO – August, 2011
• Florida Health Care Association Legislative Conference – October, 2011
• ALFA Senior Living Leadership Forum – November, 2011

National Webinars

• AHCA, Alternative Funding Options for Senior Living and Long Term Care – September, 2008
• The Senior Care Investor, Boost your Census: Solutions for Financially Challenging Times – November, 2008
• ALFA, Legislative Initiatives in the States and the NCOIL Model Law – April, 2011

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