Description: Supporting Excel file for Getzen Model 2022.

Description: Supplemental Appendices for Using Social Determinants to Identify Profiles of U.S. Children with Low Dental Expenditures and High Medical Expenditures with Clusters

Description: This paper summarizes the salient techniques for evaluating and pricing the risks in group disability income coverages. This paper contains examples of how to evaluate short-term and long-term disability experience for developing manual rates. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This project would update the Medicaid underwriting model and report to reflect emerging factors that materially impact financial results and Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO) risks and incorporate additional up-to-date rate setting and MCO financial data, as well as any new insights within the accompanying report.

Description: This report evaluates alternative payment models that potentially could be instituted by healthcare payers and manufacturers.

Description: COVID has washed over healthcare like a tsunami. According to Medicare actuaries, trends have been turned upside down in 2021, but will reverse back in 2023 as medical costs rebound. It is more prudent to base projections on long run trends for a period after the storm, extrapolating from 2026 forward, leaving the intervening turbulence (years 2022 -2025) mostly unspecified.

Description: This paper examines the financial dynamics resulting from the currency exchange rate for medical insurance products that are denominated in a currency different from that in which covered medical expenses are incurred. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This paper explores the legislation of Mass 65, the intent of which was to offer health benefits to persons aged 65 and older without evidence of insurability. From TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, 1962 VOL. 14 PT. 1, NO. 40.

Description: Summary in Simplified Chinese

Description: This report provides highlights of a weekly survey of practices regarding the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. during the week of November 28, 2020. The survey asks about the degree to which the respondents perceive that people in their community are following 21 common mitigation practices. The responses are separated by state and compared to state level statistics regarding the level of COVID-19 infections from the Johns Hopkins COVID database for the same time period.