Description: This report compares health care utilization and expenditures between individuals with Crohn’s disease who had used infliximab and those who had not. Claims data from the 1999-2003 Thomson Reuters MarketScan commercial claims and encounters databases and inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims data of individuals older than 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Crohn’s were included.

Description: This is an abstract for the paper, Analysis of Costs for a Chronic Disease with Acute High Cost Episodes by Marjorie Rosenberg and Philip Farrell.

Description: Article from The Actuary October 1992 – Volume 26, No. 08 is a mathematical illustration about amortized life annuities.

Description: 2005 SOA New Orleans Spring Meeting. In this teaching session, panelists discuss the importance, performance, reading and understanding of research that is critical to the future of the health actuarial profession. A case study of a particular research paper is used to facilitate understanding.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that introduces KDBINTMTM (Knowing, Doing, Being, Inspiring, and Networking), the framework in how it is being defined, and a plan to measure success for actuarial programs.

Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.

Description: Supplemental Appendices for Using Social Determinants to Identify Profiles of U.S. Children with Low Dental Expenditures and High Medical Expenditures with Clusters

Description: Supplemental Appendices for Using Social Determinants to Identify Profiles of U.S. Children with Low Dental Expenditures and High Medical Expenditures with Clusters

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that presents a Bayesian model for analyzing time-dependent data. The model allows for the possibility of a shift in the level and/or a shift in the variance of the process at all time points. An example of simulated data will be shown as well as the results of four macroeconomic time series data: inflation, interest, unemployment, and wage. The fitted data of the model is compared against the actual through the use of prediction intervals and the creation of a new measure, called the 'modified Akaike Information Criterion'.

Description: Abstract of a presentation from Actuarial Research Clearing House 2012