Description: Discover the key components of value-based care (VBC) contracts and their impact on provider credibility. Learn about benchmarks, measurement period results, and the unique challenges providers face in managing insurance risk. Gain insights into reducing costs and aligning financial incentives in the US healthcare market.

Description: Recap of the Health Policy Summit held in honor of Health Affairs’ 25th anniversary.

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: Editor's comments on the publication

Description: Adapting actuarial skills for the new multidisciplinary work of healthcare delivery system reform.

Description: Recap of the health sessions at the 2014 SOA Annual Meeting.

Description: Update on the SOA Health Section's Public Health Task Force's comment on Health People 2030.

Description: This article focuses on mandatory supplemental benefits offered by general enrollment plans and Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) Medicare Advantage plans from 2017 to 2021.

Description: Actuaries are currently familiar with the impact of new technologies used primarily by clinicians and health care providers, such as new drugs and devices. The common theme emerging from many of the articles points to a technological revolution in health care accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis this year. Actuaries need to understand these technologies, their impact, learn how to drive this technological change and guide the response of their profession and their own health care organizations.