Description: This article discusses the challenges and unknowns relating to the regulatory inclusion of pediatric dental benefits within the essential benefits list of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Description: This articles describes how actuaries can contribute to the understanding of the financing of Medicare and the urgency of its problems.

Description: This session discussion is about two proposals for health-care reform will be presented, one from the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association and one from the Council for Affordable Health Care. These dramatically different proposals will be compared and open for critique. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists discuss various legislative activities at the federal and state levels that affect health organizations doing business in the commercial market including: patient protection, uninsured, coverage mandates, genetic testing and mental health parity. Also included are case studies of New Jersey and New York's approach to coverage for the uninsured. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 80

Description: Discusses Notice 2011-02 as it addresses most, but not all, of the outstanding questions about health-care-insurance entities to which the $500,000 compensation rule applies.

Description: The author outlines the Academy's analysis of Clinton health care premiums, standard benefits, mental health benefits.

Description: This article provides an overview of the key provisions and impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Cadillac Plan Excise Tax.

Description: This session disscusses thel outlook of the Medicare program, current and longer-term reform proposals, and Medicare prescription drug proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 66

Description: An economics professor and a health care consumer advocate weigh in on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including implementation issues, directions for the future and what role actuaries shoudl take.

Description: Recent health care reform activity has highlighted the importance of Clinical Integration in improving the quality, safety, efficiency and reimbursement infrastructure of the health care system. This article discusses relevance and implication of regulatory measures, implementation and data issues, and provides an end-to-end example.