Description: Issues relating to the1998 Balanced Budget Act BBA on Medicare Supplement Carriers. Discusses High-Deductible options, open enrollment provisions, pre-existing condition limitations, new provider payment methods and preventive benefits Issue No. 36.

Description: Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment reform.

Description: Why health care inflation exceeds the Consumer Price Index CPI due to tax implications. Issue No. 37.

Description: This article discusses the legislative summary of the changes that will occur with the new Medigap policies, which will be effective on or after June 1, 2010. Issue No 60

Description: This article provides an overview of behavioral economic theory as it relates to health and welfare insurance plans and provides summaries of two sample applications of the theories: enrollment in health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and product design considerations in light of vast health illiteracy.

Description: This article talks about the challenges facing the FDA, especially those arising from the globalization of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Description: Opioids overdoses have contributed to increases in mortality among white American. This article gives some detail on the speed and the reach of the epidemic.

Description: A guide to the protocols and rules necessary to ensure an accurate savings comparison when using an historical claims repricing in the PBM RFP process.

Description: Evaluating the success of Disease Management Programs by looking at ROI and the risk management economic model. Issue No. 46.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to conduct research and educate health care policymakers on issues including principles for market reform, individual insurance, and risk factors.