Description: This article is about the agent orange program and the actuarial analysis which provided necessary information so that the available funds would be sufficient to pay eligible claims. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 2

Description: Medicaid and the ACA

Description: This article focuses on the minimum value calculator and the methodology used. It proposes potential future improvements to this model.

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: Recap of content contained in the May 2013 issue of the Health Watch newsletter.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the history of this 75-year-old Medical Information Bureau MIB, its very active and data-rich source of medical information, and the services that the MIB offers to clients and other industry groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Discusses management principles for the successful application of the underwriting processes of selecting and classifying risks and the actuarial pricing process of establishing adequate and equitable premiums for the risks to be underwritten within group medical business. Has some nice representative data for what a book of business might look like by case size.

Description: Insurers are becoming increasingly involved in the development and marketing of prepaid health care service plans, or Health Maintenance Organizations HMOs. The article describes four different approaches for establishing capitation rates for HMOs 1. Integrated Budgeting Approach, 2. Inventory Approach, 3. Group Insurance Rating, and 4. Actuarial Approach.