Description: This article is directed to the payors—especially self-funded employers and TPAs—that seek to improve the health of the populations they cover in addition to administering the plan. Greater use of primary care is one way to better manage the health delivery. The results should also impact costs in a measurable way. Issue No. 59

Description: Summary of the health section council’s research project to assess the accuracy of commonly used IBNR estimation methods over a wide range of scenarios.

Description: The Johns Hopkins ACG Team's comments regarding their participation in the Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment.

Description: Discussion of the separate and joint effects of obesity and diabetes on disability and mortality, and ways these effects can be used to improved insurance pricing and reserving, reverse the increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, and improve current projections of disability and mortality risks.

Description: This article is about the agent orange program and the actuarial analysis which provided necessary information so that the available funds would be sufficient to pay eligible claims. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 2

Description: Panelists discuss the ongoing influence and long-term implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on the health insurance market in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss the successes and shortcomings of disease management as the latest generation of effective managed care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Read the March 2017 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section. Practical information for actuaries, articles impact sections, section activities.

Description: Announcement that the report of the Self-Insurance Task Force, a Health Section Strategic Initiative, has been released.

Description: Medicaid and the ACA