Description: This article contains excerpts from the first three articles that were released through the strategic initiative - Commercial Health Care: What’s Next?

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: This article discusses a multiyear design for stop-loss reinsurance used by employers offering self-funded medical benefit programs.

Description: A review of the academic article "Health Insurance for ‘Humans’: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare."

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: An approach to quantify medical intervention savings when medical claims data is not available by leveraging overlapping measurement techniques.

Description: Panelists discuss product designs and strategies of interest to employees, as well as the impact of defined contribution plans on the health insurance market and third-party administration business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 58

Description: Key insights for insurers from RGA's 2016 study exploring the potential use of wearable fitness trackers in insurance product development.

Description: Vincent Kane recaps the “Statistics for Reading the Health Services and Policy Literature” session at the SOA ’10 Health Meeting.

Description: Presented at August 2011 46th Actuarial Research Conference. Discussion of research in progress which examines and validates the use of PRIDIT as a hospital quality measure. PRIDIT is an unsupervised learning technique developed as a fraud detection method.