Description: SOA 2012 Health Meeting Interview with Chairperson Daniel Bailey

Description: The momentum in value-based care has produced an opportunity for actuaries to become pioneers in health care

Description: This article is about the cost-benefit relationship of advances in longevity and taking personal responsibility for one's own wellness.

Description: In the evolving realm of healthcare actuarial practice, value-based contracts are reshaping the landscape. This article explores the pivotal role of AI-enhanced Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in empowering actuaries to navigate this dynamic sector. Despite challenges in data standardization, AI-enhanced EMRs offer a solution by extracting and standardizing diverse medical records. The article delineates how AI-EMR integration benefits actuaries and provider organizations, enabling more accurate forecasting, earlier shared savings prepayments, and real-time quality metric aggregation. Moreover, it discusses how this fusion addresses historical data limitations, can help project catastrophic claims, and can help identify risk score capture opportunities. Ultimately, it indicates the transformative potential of AI-EMR synergy, positioning actuaries at the forefront of healthcare analytics with unprecedented precision and insight.

Description: This article examines the costs of mental health parity, presents the primary drivers of cost increases from legislation and shows evidence the initial cost projections were too high. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: With many pharmacy benefit plans now considering whether to add a 4th tier for high priced specialty drugs, review and discussion also needs to be given to the other end of the pharmacy cost spectrum to see how costs can be reduced by promoting lower cost over-the counter OTC drugs. From Health Watch News, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: This article outlines what the author learned from the Sixth Annual Quality Colloquium at Harvard. From Health Watch, January 2008, Issue No. 57.

Description: Recap of content contained in the October 2013 issue of the Health Watch newsletter.

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

Description: Strategies to position Medicare Advantage plans for success during August resubmission.