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  • An Actuarial Response to the Health-Care Crisis
    An Actuarial Response to the Health-Care Crisis Discussion regarding who's to blame for ... Discussion regarding who's to blame for cost increase, Government's role to ensure coverage and ...

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    • Authors: Daniel Wolak
    • Date: Apr 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Reducing Medical Cost Trend With Concierge Services and Enhanced Digital Tools
    a 2016 study in JAMA Internal Medicine by Frank S. Drescher and Brenda E. Sirovich reports that advanced ... optimized their utilization in two ways, as shown in Table  1. First, they reduced their use of four categories ...

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    • Authors: Edward Cymerys
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health information technology
  • Modeling the Cost of Medical Care for the Elderly
    (cost ratio) Retrospective analysis is provided in Table 1 on page 22. Reliable data on spending by age ... percent) and population (+1.2 per- cent) as shown in Table 2, the rise in the percent- age of health care costs ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Getzen
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Long-term Care>Medical expenses; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
  • Is there currently an underwriting cycle?
    Watch October 2012 – Issue 70 S everal actuarial models exist for determining appropriate ... income of between 2 and 7 percent in each year since 2000. He went on to explain an approach his company ...

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    • Authors: Mark Shaw
    • Date: Jan 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • What We Have Learned in the Last50 Years—and Aren’t Using
    other indicators. In fact, reports released by the U.S. Surgeon General and the Center for Disease Control ... reported by the CDC states that of U.S. children born in the year 2000, one in three will become diabetic ...

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    • Authors: Chris E Stehno
    • Date: May 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • The Evolution of the Individual Market (Part II)
    The Evolution of the Individual Market (Part II) Part II of a two-part series discussing ... evolution from before the ACA through President Trump's first term. Individual health plans, Government-funded ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Fann
    • Date: Mar 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • Letter from the Editors
    Letter from the Editors The editors of Health Watch have made health care reform ... issue, and provide an introduction to the issue's contents. Health care reform;Health information exchanges;Health ...

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    • Authors: Grady Catterall, Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: Sep 2009
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council
    Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council Updates on the ... Practice Council Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task ...

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    • Authors: Heather E Jerbi, Tim M Mahony
    • Date: May 2010
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Influence; Professional Values>Public interest representation
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Experience Studies & Data; Public Policy; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Health Care Quality Issues Need Actuarial Input
    patient lifting (which causes accidents and worker ’s compensation claims by hospital workers) and reduced ... as well as reducing infection rates. 1 2 | J a n u a r y 2 0 0 8 | Health Watch Health Care Quality ...

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    • Authors: John Cookson
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • ERISA Preemption and Managed Care Organizations
    HealthCare, Inc., Pegram vs. Herdrich, and Kearney vs. U.S. Healthcare, Inc. These three cases illustrate the ... Corcorans filed an appeal, and the case was moved to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Court ...

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    • Authors: Louis Lana
    • Date: Sep 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Public Policy