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  • Health Watch, October 2017, Issue 84
    to Achieve August Resubmission Success By Kelly S. Backes, Hillary Millican, Susan Silseth and Matthew ... United States, summarizing data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Read the article and ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health information technology; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability
  • Calibrating Risk Score Model with Partial Credibility
    “offset” variable that represented the original model’s risk score prediction. In a standard linear regression ... The specific error metrics are presented in the table below: Model Description Error Metric on Next Year ...
    • Authors: Sheamus Parkes, Brad Armstrong
    • Date: Oct 2015
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Predictive Analytics
  • Health Care Affordability - Effect on Employers and the Uninsured
    They’re really new names on old versions. That’ s not to say that there haven’t been improvements made ... through the latter part of the '90s, maybe into 2000, their reimbursement levels were pretty flat. But ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Thomas Handley, Bryan Miller, Jonathan Meyers
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • Integrating Claims-Based and Survey-Based Data to Estimate Program Savings
    and to make them more data- and evidence-based. Table 1 lists the recorded survey variables. Surveys ... with a means of estimation for other programs. Table 1 Survey Variables Variable Description A Achieved ...

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    • Authors: Andrew Mackenzie, Ian G Duncan
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis
  • Health Watch, June 2017, Issue 83
    Health Section Events By Karen Shelton I S S U E 8 3 • J U N E 2 0 1 7 Health Watch 2 | JUNE ... States in 2010 2. $56 billion on sepsis care in U.S. hospitals every day in 2011 3. 30 percent projected ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health information technology; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Health & Disability>Payment models; Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability
  • An Actuarial Model to Improve Health and Reduce Costs
    Beckman Chronic disease accounts for 86 percent of U.S. health care costs and an ever-increasing share of ... Diabetes Association, Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2012, http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cont ...

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    • Authors: Ken Beckman
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Chronic health management - Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy
  • Defining Best-In-Market Health Opportunities
    Marketing Moderator: DALE H. YAMAMOTO Panelists: MINDY S. KAIREYt Recorder: DALE H. YAMAMOTO Summary: Health ... it all in the past, so, bear with us. Ms. Mindy S. Kairey: We're going to spend a little bit more than ...

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    • Authors: Dale Yamamoto, Mindy S Kairey
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Fundamentals of Defined-Contribution Health Plans
    Copyright © 2001, Society of Actuaries Note: The chart(s) referred to in the text can be found at the end of ... first- dollar business." They responded, "You mean, $2000 isn't high enough?" We said, "No," so we haven't ...

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    • Authors: Robert Gordon Cosway, Harry L Sutton, George Wagoner
    • Date: May 2001
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Technology & Applications>E-commerce
  • Review: “Health Insurance for ‘Humans’: Information Friction
    HEALTH INSURANCE Currently, more than 80 percent 1 of large U.S. employers offer their employees, either as one ... switch for each of the four models presented in Table 6. The results for both the types model and the ...

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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
  • Organizations of Interest to Health Actuaries: Academy Health “Moving Evidence Into Action”
    health services research and system improvement. Table 1 shows a list of the programs led by their staff ... Illinois. She can be reached at rowen@soa.org. Table 1 AcademyHealth Programs Advancing Research to ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy