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Life Settlements: Congress Wades Into the Fray
$7.01 billion.17 According to a 2011 report, the U.S. life settlement industry saw sales drop about 50 ... challenges facing their industry. Fears that the U.S. economy could fall into a “double-dip” recession ...- Authors: John Adney, Bryan W Keene
- Date: Oct 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Health & Disability; Life Insurance; Public Policy
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Influenza Pandemics: Are We Ready for the Next One? What Actuaries Can Learn From 1918
Influenza Pandemics: Are We Ready for the Next One? What Actuaries Can Learn From 1918 This article ... have a significant impact. Deterministic models;Mortality assumption;Stochastic models; 10748 7/1/2004 ...- Authors: Max Rudolph
- Date: Jul 2004
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Global Perspectives; Health & Disability
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Issue Brief: Changing Financial Risks for Medigap Insurance, Part 2
50% in 2023.[1] This growth has cut into Medigap’s market share (though not overall enrollment counts) ... administrative and financial risk of enhancing benefits. MA’s broad annual flexibility to include dental, vision ...- Date: Mar 2024
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy; Public Policy
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Raising the Bar in Medicaid: Actuarial Driven Solutions to Support the Most Vulnerable
Taufiq In the Public Interest, January 2022 Editor’s note: This article is the winning submission for the ... claims. These billing issues directly hinder a patient’s access to specialty care. While access to primary ...- Authors: Khurram Taufiq
- Date: Jan 2022
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration
- Publication Name: In The Public Interest
- Topics: Health & Disability; Social Insurance; Social Insurance>Medicaid
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Better Care Through Understanding the Customer Not Just the Patient
types of data exist outside a health plan or provider’s walls that would enable us to develop a more holistic ... data sources that can help inform us of a member’s needs and wants. The first two are publicly available ...- Authors: James Dolstad, Craig Cartossa, Justin Hartmann
- Date: Dec 2021
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Health & Disability>Payment models; Predictive Analytics; Health & Disability>Provider networks; Health & Disability>Provider risk; Predictive Analytics>Modeling techniques
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Biosimilars, Part 2: The Coming Wave
material. Biosimilars bring competition, and there’s going to be a lot of opportunity to drive competition ... reached. Patents can extend the reference product’s exclusivity period and complicate litigation challenging ...- Date: Sep 2023
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability
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Further Discussion of High Hospital Charges
Significant Issues Again” based on our analysis of FY 2000 Medicare hospital charges. As pointed out, these ... compares to a ratio of just over 14 to one in FY 2000 (based on hospitals with at least 1000 admissions ...- Authors: John Cookson
- Date: Apr 2003
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability
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The Next Horizon of Value-based Care: An Opportunity for Actuaries to Become Pioneers in Health Care
value-based care (as opposed to primary-care based) in the U.S. has consistently been a top-of-mind topic for all ... moving from “hire an actuary when we need one” to “let’s start the company with an actuary from day one”—as ...- Authors: Yuxiao Zhao
- Date: Aug 2023
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health care
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Accessing and Using Public Data: A Primer for the Health Actuary
Other federal data: The Census Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is one of the primary sources ... This site is a gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies and provides direct access to ...- Authors: Denise Love
- Date: Nov 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Health & Disability
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NAIC Health Update
Issue 46 17JUNE 2002 HE A LT H SE C T I O N NE W S minimum loss ratio, or other, pric- ing requirements ... positioned for growth in the 21st century as the trend of U.S. employment at small companies with less than 100 ...- Authors: Rowen Bell
- Date: Jun 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability