Description: The PPACA imposed a market share-based health insurance provider fee, known as the "Section 9010 Fee", "Health Insurer Fee", or simply the "HIF", on each “covered entity” with net premiums written in excess of $25 million that is engaged in the business of providing health insurance coverage for U.S. health risks. This article provides background information to help unpack the language behind the Section 9010 Fee and highlights a few areas of special interest including merger and acquisition-related issues, application of the Section 9010 fee to expatriate plans, and considerations regarding fee administration.

Description: Chapter 2 analyzes, in table form, the study's claimant counts and charge totals, broken down by gender, age, diagnosis category, year, and by subscriber vs. dependent status. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: Presentation on estimating rates of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease. This document contains incident rates, critical illnese insurance information, adverse selection, and more.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper, The Need for Coordinated Care for Depression, and the Need for Creative Innovation by Stephen P. Melek, FSA.

Description: The article reviews high-deductible health plans and poor reimbursement for mental health providers as being the root of 3 devastating problems facing the US.