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  • Letter from the EditorGreetings to All Health Actuaries!
    Letter from the EditorGreetings to All Health Actuaries! Letter from the Editor Greetings to ... the basics, particularly as they apply to health- care and health insurance business. Bill Lane continues ...

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    • Authors: Jeffrey Miller
    • Date: Apr 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Statistical Tools for Actuaries?First in New Series of Guides Available
    Statistical Tools for Actuaries?First in New Series of Guides Available Recognizing an opportunity ... perspective. The guide includes an overview of health care liabilities and the completion factor method, as ...

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    • Authors: Steven Siegel
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • Will MedSupp Have “2020” Vision in the World of MACRA?
    Recently passed legislation referred to as MACRA (Medi-care Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20151) will ... modeling various reasonable scenarios of the Medi- care Supplement market, experience on policies issued ...

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    • Authors: Kenneth Clark
    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Quantile Regression - A New Actuarial Approach to Claims Estimation
    distribution (due to better compliance with preventive care and maternity costs) but may not have a significant ... difference in cost at the 98th percentile (since care for many catastrophic diseases may not vary significantly ...

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    • Authors: Robert Jason Reed (Jason)
    • Date: Apr 2020
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Predictive Analytics; Health & Disability>Claims - Health & Disability; Predictive Analytics>Modeling techniques
  • Adjusting the 1985 NAIC Cancer Claim Cost Tables for Inflation
    Adjusting the 1985 NAIC Cancer Claim Cost Tables for Inflation Adjusting the 1985 NAIC Cancer ... on page 4, column 1 M The “Standard Plan” The primary reason for chosing “standard plan” was that a table ...

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    • Authors: W Keith Sloan
    • Date: Feb 1998
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity
  • HSAs and Account-Based Health PlansAn Overview of Preliminary Research
    HSAs and Account-Based Health PlansAn Overview of Preliminary Research This article is an overview ... engage in healthy behaviors, such as preventive care and wellness programs; and • 20 percent more likely ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2006
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • The Art & Science of Pricing Small Group Medical Coverage: Initial Pricing Schemes
    David L. Reichlinger..................16 Health Care and the Role of the Actuary in Ireland by Aisling ... Rappaport....................23 Page The Managed Care Market - Current Status, Future Direction by Kevin ...

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    • Authors: William Lane
    • Date: Dec 2000
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Health Actuaries and the Short-term Prediction Problem
    inherent complexity of predicting future health care costs in a relatively short time frame—particularly ... predictions far into the future—estimates of health care spending in 20 years or the expected deficit in ...

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    • Date: May 2012
    • Competency: Communication>Oral communication; Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Leadership>Influence; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Relationship Management>Relationships and trust; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing
  • Taking a Closer Look at Enterprise Risk Management
    Preferences are key. Even with uncertainty, if we don’t care which outcome happens, we don’t have a problem. ... preferences of the owners of the enterprise, who will care about the totality of the organization, over the ...

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    • Authors: Kara Clark
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
  • Looking Forward to Vancouver
    Looking Forward to Vancouver Looking Forward to Vancouver by Daniel L. Wolak from Health ... valuation of medical and dental insurance and managed care products. Possible topics of discussion include: ...

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    • Authors: Daniel Wolak
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Publication Name: Health Watch