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  • Health Watch Article Contest on Provider Payment Reform
    Health Watch Article Contest on Provider Payment Reform Description and specifications ... Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: May 2010
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Leadership>Thought leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Economics>Health economics
  • Consumers to the Rescue? A Primer on HDHPs and HSAs
    rapid growth rate of per capita health costs in the U.S. has been a sore spot in economic forecasts for nearly ... organizations (HMOs) to today’s latest products, U.S. health policy has evolved and, as a key driving ...

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    • Authors: Fritz Busch, Barbara Collier, Jason Karcher , Steven Phillips
    • Date: Mar 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • A Road Map to MEPS—A FreeData Destination of the AHRQ
    Component (MPC) and Insurance Component (IC). 2 0 | S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 | Health Watch A Road ... Destination of the AHRQ by Steven Siegel Health Watch | S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 | 2 1 Household Component ...

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    • Authors: Steven Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2006
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Direct Primary Care: Good for What Ails Us
    access_alternatives/the-rebirth-of-concierge-care_hybtsypz.html?s= NCKD3bbDwTAy7B9Imn 8 Supra note 5. 9 Philip Eskew ... Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein. 2014. “Administrative Work Con- sumes One-Sixth of U.S. Physicians’ Working ...

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    • Authors: Gayle Brekke
    • Date: May 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Payment models
  • Health Care Affordability:A Valuable Concept in Understanding OurHealth Care System Challenges
    45 Overview F or more than two decades, the U.S. healthcare system has attracted considerableattention ... continue to fuel concerns about the future of the U.S. health care system and our collective ability to ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Navigating New Horizons…Dawn E. Helwig, FSA, MAAA
    will they get to 0 before it stops falling?” Mortality, too, is an important rate about which lit- tle ... elderly and/or impaired. But no one has done a mortality table for either active or impaired LTC policyholders—certainly ...

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    • Authors: Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Long-term care - Experience Studies & Data; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Long-term Care>Public financing - Long-term Care
  • Bundled Reimbursement: A Step in the Right Direction, or Another Flawed Idea?
    Estimate is Actuarial By Steven Siegel 40 The U.S. Health Care Revolution: Give Me an Incentivized ... t t p : / / w w w . m a s s m e d . o r g / A M / T e m p l a t e . c f m ? S e c t i o n = H o m e 6 ...

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    • Authors: Todd Lueders
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • PPACA Heats Up Actuaries in Orlando: A Tour of the SOA ’10 Health Meeting
    taking place with health care in our economy in the U.S., we are going to have a large number of unpredictable ... the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Save the date(s), June 13–15! n ppaCa Heats Up … | from page 21 ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Norris
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Economics>Health economics; Public Policy
  • New Member Impact on Medicaid Managed Care Costs
    unemployment increases in their geographic region (see Table 1). The markets studied included Arizona, Maryland ... have, on average, higher health care costs (see Table 2) the study showed that the proportion of short– ...

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    • Authors: Bela H Patel Fernandez, Jeffrey L Smith
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare; Social Insurance>Medicaid
  • Generic Dispensing Rates: Silver Bullet No More?
    trend picture even more favorable for generics. Table 1 contains a summary of recent drug trend reports ... in recent years. 12 | MAY 2010 | Health Watch Table 1 Pharmacy Trends Mitigated Through GDR Increases ...

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    • Authors: Troy Filipek
    • Date: May 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Social Insurance>Medicare