Description: This article provides a detailed description of the unbalanced subsidy provisions in the Affordable Care Act with easy to follow numerical illustrations. An understanding of the illustrative calculations is necessary to understand the subsidy implications. The article highlights some surprising and likely unintended results that will be interest to issuers, employers, consumers, regulators and policymakers. Actuaries can add expertise to their clients and to the public discussion with a proper understanding of the subsidy calculations and the resulting implications.

Description: Article summarizes the sessions of the 2011 SOA Health Meeting held in Boston.

Description: Results of a survey of healthcare organizations regarding use and plans for Predictive Analytics

Description: This article provides an overview of the financial results of managed care plans over time using a collection of the NAIC financial statements.

Description: Overview of the book: Overtreated, Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

Description: This article deeply examines Pay-for-performance and presents curious findings through the lens of unwarranted variation. From Heath Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: As providers are considering accountable and value based care models, it is critical to strategically think through how to achieve a sustainable business model into the future. This requires actuarial and clinical/provider capabilities to assess the care management and financial levers to help a client through the transition.

Description: Volunteers and staff from the SOA are working with the Centers for Disease Control on public health initiatives to improve population health.

Description: Recap of National Academy of Social Insurance NASI annual conference “Getting to Universal Health Insurance Coverage”

Description: This article summarizes a joint SOA/Kaiser Family Foundation initiative focused on addressing the rising cost of health care in the United States.