Description: Surplus and the ACA

Description: ACA Impact on Employers

Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: Compares the healthcare system of the US to the universal systems of selected other countries. Relies primarily on information compiled annually by The Commonwealth Fund. Will give the reader an understanding of the difference between universal healthcare, socialized medicine, and single-payer healthcare and how various national systems fall within these categories.

Description: A report analyzing the cost of care for deceased cancer patients over the last six months of life.

Description: This article aims to measure the accuracy of official projections.

Description: Medicare Advantage and ACA

Description: This session discussion is about methods of managing care, what methods have been most effective, experience to date under managed care products, are savings being generated, employer acceptance of managed care products, provider acceptance of managed care products, what will future managed care programs look like. Includes a discussion on utilization review and management, From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Rising drug—and, to a lesser extent, health care—costs in Canada are creating long-term challenges for not only governments and employers across Canada but for individuals as well, with no easy answers.

Description: This session will discuss the continuing evolution of the managed health care process. Topics include precertification, utilization review, retrospective review, case management, appropriateness review, benchmarking, recredentialing, provider contracting, and integrated medical systems. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.