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  • North of the Border with the S.O.eh?
    North of the Border with the S.O.eh? A review of the 2009 Health Spring Meeting, which included speakers ... speakers & sessions on the future of the SOA, U.S. health care reform, claims data issues & improvements ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Norris
    • Date: Sep 2009
    • Competency: Communication>Difficult message delivery; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Economics>Health economics; Public Policy
  • Providers: Reorganize and Refinance
    P F O U r W In n E r S O F T H E H E A l T H W A T C H A r T IC l E C O n T E S T Providers: ... Bos The short and long term functionality of the U.S. health care system is heavily dependent on the quality ...

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    • Authors: Jill Van Den Bos
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy
  • Letter from the Editors
    Letter from the Editors The editors of Health Watch have made health care reform ... issue, and provide an introduction to the issue's contents. Health care reform;Health information exchanges;Health ...

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    • Authors: Grady Catterall, Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: Sep 2009
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Palliative Care
    hospitals. At least 20 percent of hospitals in every U.S. state report a palliative care program; while patients ... programs can be broadly cate- gorized as shown in Table 1. Table 1 Categories of Palliative Care Programs Program ...

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    • Authors: Randall Krakauer, Bruce Smith, Diane Meier, Torrie Fields
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management; Leadership>Influence; Leadership>Mentoring; Leadership>Professional network leverage; Leadership>Thought leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Health & Disability>Chronic health management - Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Payment models
  • Consumers to the Rescue? A Primer on HDHPs and HSAs
    rapid growth rate of per capita health costs in the U.S. has been a sore spot in economic forecasts for nearly ... organizations (HMOs) to today’s latest products, U.S. health policy has evolved and, as a key driving ...

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    • Authors: Fritz Busch, Barbara Collier, Jason Karcher , Steven Phillips
    • Date: Mar 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Navigating New Horizons…Dawn E. Helwig, FSA, MAAA
    will they get to 0 before it stops falling?” Mortality, too, is an important rate about which lit- tle ... elderly and/or impaired. But no one has done a mortality table for either active or impaired LTC policyholders—certainly ...

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    • Authors: Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Long-term care - Experience Studies & Data; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Long-term Care>Public financing - Long-term Care
  • Bundled Reimbursement: A Step in the Right Direction, or Another Flawed Idea?
    Estimate is Actuarial By Steven Siegel 40 The U.S. Health Care Revolution: Give Me an Incentivized ... t t p : / / w w w . m a s s m e d . o r g / A M / T e m p l a t e . c f m ? S e c t i o n = H o m e 6 ...

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    • Authors: Todd Lueders
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • PPACA Heats Up Actuaries in Orlando: A Tour of the SOA ’10 Health Meeting
    taking place with health care in our economy in the U.S., we are going to have a large number of unpredictable ... the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Save the date(s), June 13–15! n ppaCa Heats Up … | from page 21 ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Norris
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Economics>Health economics; Public Policy
  • Generic Dispensing Rates: Silver Bullet No More?
    trend picture even more favorable for generics. Table 1 contains a summary of recent drug trend reports ... in recent years. 12 | MAY 2010 | Health Watch Table 1 Pharmacy Trends Mitigated Through GDR Increases ...

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    • Authors: Troy Filipek
    • Date: May 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Getting Actuaries More Engaged in Population Health
    Getting Actuaries More Engaged in Population Health Introduction to population health, a collaborative ... actuaries the opportunity to have a “seat at the table” when the programs are designed, and give actuaries ...

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    • Authors: Robert D Lieberthal
    • Date: Jan 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics