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  • Modeling Anti-selective Lapse and Optimal Pricing in Individual and Small Group Health Insurance
    Modeling Anti-selective Lapse and Optimal Pricing in Individual and Small Group Health Insurance A new health ...

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    • Authors: D Wei
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council
    Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council Report ... work groups. Consumer-driven health plans=CDHP;Individual health plans;Medicare supplement;Risk-based capital=RBC; ...

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    • Authors: Heather E Jerbi, Melissa Lawler
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Long-term Care; Public Policy
  • A Perspective on Long-Term Health Care Cost Trend and Macroeconomic Modeling
    A Perspective on Long-Term Health Care Cost Trend and Macroeconomic Modeling This article ... trend rate ssumption in retiree medical liability valuation work. Issue No. 59 Assumptions;Retiree medical; ...

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    • Authors: Charles Edwards
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • New Member Impact on Medicaid Managed Care Costs
    Enrollment: Medicaid enrollment often occurs when an individual is at the hos- pital or provider. • Pent ... unemployment increases in their geographic region (see Table 1). The markets studied included Arizona, Maryland ...

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    • Authors: Bela H Patel Fernandez, Jeffrey L Smith
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare; Social Insurance>Medicaid
  • Review: “Health Insurance for ‘Humans’: Information Friction
    NOVEMBER 2016 HEALTH WATCH | 29 expenses each individual and family would incur in the enroll- ment year ... distribution of costs to mitigate risks unique to individual attributes, especially those risks with long ...

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    • Authors: Christopher Coulter, Kathleen Dobrzynski, Tyler Engel, Dorothy Andrews
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care
  • Pharmacoeconomics: Why ShouldActuaries Care?
    more effective than the other seems to be an individual matter. The side effects associ- ated with NSAIDs ... suggested order in which individual NSAIDs are tried as treatment until an individual finds one that is suitable ...

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    • Authors: Jill Van Den Bos
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions
    premium: $930 By selecting Plan A over Plan B, an individual would pay an additional $638 in annual premium ... product actuaries working in both the group and individual markets. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF POOR HEALTH ...

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    • Authors: Alexander Leung, Jonah Yearick, Randy P Herman
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Technology & Applications>E-commerce
  • Reflections on Health Care Financing and Benefits in the U.S.: Observations and Opinions
    payer system (like Canada or the U.K.)—not on the table for discussion currently in the U.S. political debate— ... claimants, many are chronically ill. In the individual market, where insurance companies can choose ...

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    • Authors: Anna M Rappaport
    • Date: May 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Behavioral Economics: Overview and Healthcare Applications
    assumes an individual “thinks and chooses unfailingly well,”2 whereas the latter assumes an individual is “not ... but behavioral economics took advantage of individual human behavior to the benefit of the airport ...

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    • Authors: Randy P Herman, Tony Pistilli, Brian Plaskow, Jeffrey Chanin
    • Date: Aug 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Relationship Management; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics; Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health care
  • Consumers to the Rescue? A Primer on HDHPs and HSAs
    employees to select the benefits that best met their individual needs.2 At about the same time, the Internal ... 900 for self- only coverage for 2019).11,12 The table in Figure  1 shows the HDHP limits for benefit ...

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    • Authors: Fritz Busch, Barbara Collier, Jason Karcher , Steven Phillips
    • Date: Mar 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance