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

Description: Part one of a two part series explores implementation issues for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 MHPAEA.

Description: This session discusses affordable health care including cost drivers, trends, the uninsured, federal funding and state initiatives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 109

Description: This article is focused on sustainability concerns in the ACA individual markets and what we can learn from core actuarial principles as discussed in ASOPs.

Description: Part 1 of a 2-part series exploring implementation issues for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 MHPAEA. Part 2 addresses the new enforcement safe harbor, how the regulations could impact the business of behavioral health care and the impending decisions for payors, employers, providers, and insureds.

Description: Beginning with the 2019 Benefit Year, CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has provided guidance that allows Medicare Advantage Plan Sponsors much greater flexibility in tailoring benefits to promote clinical, care management, and financial goals. The guidance allows for a broader menu of supplemental benefits and also enables plans to target benefit enhancements to beneficiaries afflicted with specific disease states. This session explores the ramifications of the policy changes on Plan Sponsors and beneficiaries, and discusses the different ways that Plan Sponsors are taking advantage of the additional flexibility.

Description: The article describes the Health Sections strategic initiative for Public Health and the role of the actuary.

Description: Family members who care for people with dementia need a wide range of support services to help them do the important work of care giving at home.

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

Description: This article provides the perspective of the Health Section's chairperson on Section activities, educational programs and the US healthcare environment.