Description: Overview of a benefit rush and its effects on companies.

Description: Update on Affordable Care Act topics, including Section 1332 waivers, Association Health Plans, silver loading and cost sharing reductions.

Description: This article provides an overview of critical illness insurance: history, product description, and the three primary ways to offer critical illness coverage in the United States. This article also contains an illustration of an issue age premium rate calculation, as well as product features and rating applications specific to the various types of critical illness coverage.

Description: Results of an SOA survey regarding the expectation for 2015 accruals for 3Rs and cost sharing reduction payments

Description: Interview discusses developing forecasting models to predict the financial impact of disruptive events and new medical technologies. Issue No. 60

Description: Background on Medicaid and description of recent changes in the program.

Description: Comments on editor's previously published Long-Term Health Care Resource Model article with respect to long term trend and other assumptions. Issue No. 60

Description: Profile of an actuary in a non-traditional actuarial role: focusing on medical cost and analysis, both retrospective and prospective.

Description: This article discusses the legislative summary of the changes that will occur with the new Medigap policies, which will be effective on or after June 1, 2010. Issue No 60

Description: Article reviews the data a year into the unwinding of continuous coverage provisions in Medicaid, the impact on enrollment counts, how capitation rates have been adjusted, and compares those results to what has been modeled with the SOA Mediciad Unwinding model.