Description: An interview with Dawn Helwig on developments in the Long Term Care market.

Description: How actuaries can become comfortable accessing, integrating and building complex data sets from big and broad sources of information to study the value of multidimensional drivers of change.

Description: Excerpts from a conversation with Alan Mills regarding his work in complexity science and agent-based modeling.

Description: A new health insurance pricing model takes external market prices into account, as well as regulatory rate restrictions and other traditional pricing factors. Rather than being assumed at the outset, lapse rates emerge from the model, along with assessment spiral & loss ratio projections. Under the model optimal pricing strategy depends on whether the class being rated has a healthier than average mix of risks.

Description: A closer look at family tier factor rating assumptions, and how well they reflect actual claim cost data.

Description: This article discusses the advantages, logistical concerns, and pricing formulas of implementing a TNHP, in which members pay less for treatment from providers who meet higher quality and cost-effectiveness standards.

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: Discussion of insolvency provision added to reinsurance agreements to insure the continuation of benefits during HMO insolvency, Issue No. 39.

Description: Overview of opportunities for actuaries in business analytics, as well as the applied statistics and programming skills necessary to succeed.

Description: The career path of a former actuarial consultant who is now executive vice president of marketing and strategic development for CVS Caremark.