Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the March 2017 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section.

Description: Panelists report on the status of activities by national associations in regard to risk-based capital requirements for health insurers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Presenter offers ways in which actuaries might set credibility levels to be used by underwriters to set group health insurance expected benefits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: The interview discusses the ACA exchange intiatives program, a strategic project of the SOA focusing on ACA marketplace emerging data and actuarial principles

Description: It is the purpose of this paper to provide data derived from actual claim experience on lives age 65 and over in a form that will facilitate actuarial calculations involving modification of durations of hospital stay and variations in the allowances provided for miscellaneous services billed by the hospital. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: This monograph explains the ways actuaries are or could be involved in the self-insured employer health plan marketplace today and in the future.