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  • A Conversation with Alan Mills, ND, FSA
    had long pondered, namely to build a model of the U.S. health care system. It had become clear to me that ... do it for a health care system, perhaps even the U.S. health care system. Mary: From there, at the University ...

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    • Authors: Mary Moran
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
  • Health Watch, June 2017, Issue 83
    Health Section Events By Karen Shelton I S S U E 8 3 • J U N E 2 0 1 7 Health Watch 2 | JUNE ... States in 2010 2. $56 billion on sepsis care in U.S. hospitals every day in 2011 3. 30 percent projected ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health information technology; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Health & Disability>Payment models; Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability
  • Getting Started with Advanced Analytics: The How and Why
    newer and bigger world of Big Data and the Big Table. In health care, the new world is about integration ... mod- els because they were first developed for mortality. However, think of them as patterns of events ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Pence
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • Assessing Prescription Opioid Risk with Predictive Analytics
    National Vital Statistics System. Mortality. CDC Wonder, Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human ... Tamara M. Haegerich, and Roger Chou. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: CDC Guideline for Prescribing ...

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    • Authors: Joseph Boschert, Andrew Gaffner, Barbara Collier
    • Date: Oct 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Demography>Population data; Experience Studies & Data; Health & Disability>Health information technology; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Health & Disability>Electronic medical record
  • 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
  • Basic Health Program: Considerations Regarding the Federal Payment Methodology
    Services has submitted a BHP blueprint1 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for ... based on tobacco utilization rates published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

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    • Authors: Michael Cook, Lindsy Marie Kotecki, Steven Armstrong
    • Date: Jan 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability
  • Update on Massachusetts Health Care Financing Reform
    Update on Massachusetts Health Care Financing Reform Read detailed analysis of a legislated act ... reached at bela.gorman@ verizon.net. 2 | J a n u a r y 2 0 0 8 | Health Watch CONTENTS 7 New Concepts ...

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    • Authors: Bela Gorman
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Public Policy
  • Modeling Anti-selective Lapse and Optimal Pricing in Individual and Small Group Health Insurance
    conditions that if =M, then L =1/2 and vice versa. S is an “s”-shaped monotonically increasing function with ... if z=1. A special case for S is a step function with S(z)=0 if z <1, S(z) =1 if z >1 and if z=1 (Figure ...

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    • Authors: D Wei
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Pharmacoeconomics: Why ShouldActuaries Care?
    Medicare population mix. These costs are presented in Table 1. PHARMACOECONOMICS: WHY SHOULD ACTUARIES CARE ... 3-Month Period Using Mean Ulcer Rates Ketoprofen Table 1 Estimated Current Cost of OA Drugs for Medicare ...

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    • Authors: Jill Van Den Bos
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Family Values and the ACA
    tools’ source data? - If so, was the continuance table based on HHS average members, or instead did the ... multiplier, did the actu- ary build a family continuance table based upon HHS’ actuarial value tools’ source data ...

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    • Authors: Kristi Bohn
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care