Description: This article aims to measure the accuracy of official projections.

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

Description: This study was sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section. This paper explores the relative significance of aging as a determinant of financial cost of health care beyond age 50, with particular attention to the effect for ages 65 and older. The paper presents concepts of aging factors and aging curves, which define relative values between ages for utilization or cost of health care services. General conclusions are drawn from Medicare data that utilization and cost differ by age, but that aging factors vary across services and may be less significant at very old ages. The author then turns to the question of measuring the significance of an aging curve assumption and what accuracy is lost in the simpler alternative of a single value across an age range.

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

Description: Rising drug—and, to a lesser extent, health care—costs in Canada are creating long-term challenges for not only governments and employers across Canada but for individuals as well, with no easy answers.

Description: Health Care Cost Trends 2002 - prescription drug, base and leveraged trend. From Health Section News, January 2002, Issue No. 42.

Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: This article examines the dynamic environment of the health care system in the United States and the challenges facing the health actuary.

Description: This article explores telemedicine's impact on the health care system, health care costs, and actuarial pricing.

Description: Feature article describing what health actuaries think will be the future role of actuaries in the health care industry.