The SOA Strategic Research Programs emphasize the skillset and thought leadership of actuaries, and help provide insights to members, stakeholders, and the public on socially relevant topics.
The SOA’s Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program focuses on the forces that shape health care cost, use and changes over time. Explore what drives health care costs, including medical and pharmacy use, social factors, and demographics. Topics include trends with health care costs, public health, preventive medicine, population health, the impacts of regulatory and legislative changes, and the impact of new medical technologies and pharmaceuticals.
Learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.
Learn more about the concept of total risk analysis, which is designed to answer key questions as decisions are made.
NAIC Spring 2024 Meeting
Catch highlights of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Spring Meeting. The SOA shared key research and related materials.
Reimagining Pharmacy Financing
Learn more about a new value-based pharmacy financing methodology.
How does where you live impact your health?
This question is considered through the lens of social determinants of health.
Digital Health: After the COVID Boom
Explore how the COVID-19 pandemic caused health care services to shift away from in-person transactions to a digital form.
Learn more about long-run medical cost trends.
This report provides professionals working with risk, data and analytics considerations and frameworks related to the use of determinants of health (DOH).
Guidance and a model for actuaries to use when performing their professional services related to Medicaid (Title XIX) and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP or Title XXI) managed care capitation rate setting.
