Description: Why and how to set up an advance directive, in case a health event renders you unable to make your own medical to decisions.

Description: The Effect of Medical Technology on Health Care Cost, the Effect of Health Care on Longevity and Vice Versa.

Description: This article examines the history, theory, and effectiveness of high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts.

Description: A listing of articles on managed care and health care issues.

Description: Feature article discussing the growing opportunities for actuaries in the health wellness arena.

Description: This session describes the process payers and employers can use to evaluate emerging medical device technologies, recent or pending FDA submissions for prescription drugs and experimental treatments that impact patient care, resource utilization and health care expenditures. We will walk through the process of identifying and selecting impactful treatments (Horizon Scanning) and quantifying the financial cost of new technologies before they arrive in the market. These workflows can be leveraged by actuaries, healthcare economists, clinicians and pharmacists from a payer (Commercial and Medicare) and employer perspective for self-funded plans. We will also walk through some sample models that illustrate how costs for emerging technologies and treatments can be modeled.

Description: SOA’s recently completed research project related to long term projects of health care cost trends for use in post retirement medical valuations.

Description: Surplus and the ACA

Description: Affordable Care Act and Payment Reform