Description: CHCS is a nonprofit policy center focused on improving American health outcomes, particularly for low-income people, including payment & delivery system reform.

Description: Considerations in the applications of Predictive Modeling for health care management. Issue No. 47.

Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpt from the fourth white paper in the Commercial Health Care: What’s Next? series.

Description: Gostin argues that there is indeed a crisis in American health care.

Description: Current Status of managing costs & increasing costs, Future Direction of Consumerism, technology and defined contribution health plans. Issue No. 39.

Description: Discussion of steps that can be taken to control costs and future plan design changes. Part 2 of a 2 part series. Issue No. 48.

Description: This article discusses Accountable Care Organizations, how they work, managing risks and their expectations to bend the cost curve.

Description: Article summarizes the sessions of the 2011 SOA Health Meeting held in Boston.

Description: Volunteers and staff from the SOA are working with the Centers for Disease Control on public health initiatives to improve population health.