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At the Intersection of Public Health and Actuarial Practice
effective. Despite actuaries’ major role in the U.S. health care system, even a basic overview of the ... significant predictors of health outcomes. More excess mortality in the United States, for instance, is attributable ...- Authors: Barbara Zabielski
- Date: Oct 2017
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Public interest representation
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Medicaid
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Over the Counter Drugs, theNew Tier Zero in Your PharmacyBenefit Plan
indicated for allergies. Based on the costs in Table 1 from drugstore.com (as of 3/8/06 unless otherwise ... Singulair could have a negative effect on the plan. 6 | S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 | Health Watch Over the ...- Authors: Steven D Berna
- Date: Sep 2006
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
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Health Watch Issue 73, October 2013
published in the Federal Register on June 19, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states ... with an edito-rial focus on the implications of U.S. health care reform. In this month’s Chairperson’s ...- Authors: Karen Perry, Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 2013
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Payment models
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A Brief Introduction toComparative Health Policy
Issue 53 Health Watch | S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 | 1 7 Our U.S. healthcare system is unique ... Total healthcare Expenditure Per Capita (THE), in U.S. dollars at purchasing power parity, is our measure ...- Authors: Application Administrator
- Date: Sep 2006
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Global Perspectives; Health & Disability>Health care
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SOA Embarks on SeveralPandemic-Related Initiatives
spread pandemic including the extra exposure to mortality and morbidity risk. How an insurer might function ... Fla. (3) Pandemic/ERM Roundtable – A round- table of leading experts, both actuarial and non-actuarial ...- Authors: Steven Siegel
- Date: May 2006
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
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National Health Care Reform: The Case for a Public Solution
Health Watch May 2008 – Issue No. 58 Is the U.S. health care system in crisis?Conservative commentators ... have a higher inci- dence of chronic disease, mortality, and poor health outcomes as compared with whites ...- Authors: Lawrence Gostin
- Date: May 2008
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
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Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries' Health Practice Council
Care In June, the Academy hosted its second round- table—National Conversation on Long-Term Care Financing ... proposal for a new group long-term disability table. This was a follow-up to the update18 the group ...- Authors: Heather E Jerbi
- Date: Jan 2013
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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The Formulary Decision Process:What Are They Doing in There and Can Actuaries Help?
disseminated the first Format for Formulary Submissions in 2000. Version 2 of the Format, released in 2002, incorporates ... recommendation made by the presenting pharmacist(s) was not accepted. If needed, experts outside of ...- Authors: Jonathan L Shreve, Jill Van Den Bos, John Watkins, Kristin Reed
- Date: Mar 2005
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
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Integrating Claims-Based and Survey-Based Data to Estimate Program Savings
and to make them more data- and evidence-based. Table 1 lists the recorded survey variables. Surveys ... with a means of estimation for other programs. Table 1 Survey Variables Variable Description A Achieved ...- Authors: Andrew Mackenzie, Ian G Duncan
- Date: Oct 2017
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis
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Ebola - Not the next Pandemic?
may be under reported five-fold. The current mortality rate is approching 50 percent with an unprecedented ... time, a person has developed symptoms whilst on U.S. soil, following a visit to Liberia. Although serious ...- Authors: Ross Campbell
- Date: Jan 2015
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Reinsurance>Financial reinsurance; Reinsurance>General reinsurance