Description: This article describes a method that can be useful when re-fitting a risk score model to a population of only moderate size. Learn how to use concepts like ridge regression to train a model with partial credibility.

Description: CDHP reserve levels claim, policy and premium reserves. New reserve technique for ASO plan sponsor reserves. Issue No. 48.

Description: Discussion about career events for an actuary working on health care reform

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: Presenter offers ways in which actuaries might set credibility levels to be used by underwriters to set group health insurance expected benefits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses trends affecting costs for prescriptions, factors behind these trends, and cost management strategies for both the commercial and Medicare markets.

Description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictive accuracy of the commercially available claims-based risk assessment tools under different sets of conditions and with different sets of available information.

Description: Analysis of possible mathematical relationships between hospital quality and hospital billed or allowed charges or other measures, using quality data as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services along with the Hospital Quality Alliance for their Hospital Quality Initiative.

Description: The principal objective of this paper is to remind actuaries of the rather significant misconceptions and distortions commonly encountered in the use of individual accident and health insurance loss ratios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.