Description: This Society of Actuaries Research Brief has been constructed to highlight some of the key features of the epidemic and contemplate the risks for the actuarial profession to consider in their work.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volumn 4, Issue 6

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volume 4, Issue 6

Description: Employer and payers need to actively seek change in the system of mental health care deliveryoperational, clinical, and financial change. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.

Description: View the following report regarding Risk Scoring in Health Insurance: A Primer.

Description: Changes introduced by various Medicare Alternative Payment Models and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) have accelerated an existing market trend of shifting some of what has traditionally been considered “insurance risk” to providers. The Provider Risk Sharing Boot Camp will give attendees deeper insights into methods, current thinking, and alternative solutions that actuaries can use to help providers understand and manage the financial and actuarial risks that they are taking, many for the first time.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 is a review of a book by Lewis C. Robbins, M.D., M.P.H. and Jack H. Hall, A.B., M.D., titled How To Practice Prospective Medicine by assessing and classifying various health risk factors. The review states the authors' basic assumption that average risk can be determined by calculating the total numbers of deaths by cause in the general population is open to criticism. Furthermore, the assignment of weights for the individual risk factors is quite tenuous in many instances. The authors acknowledge this, but once a number appears in print, especially as part of a complex table, it achieves a sanctity that is difficult to destroy.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS regulation, mortality, morbidity trends, underwriting techniques, methodology, cost considerations, medical diagnosis and treatment advances. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.