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  • The U.S. Health Care Revolution: Give Me an Incentivized Provider Payment System or Give Me Death!
    The U.S. Health Care Revolution: Give Me an Incentivized Provider Payment System or Give Me Death! A ...

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    • Authors: John Dante
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • Bariatric Surgery Holds Promise for Patients and for Payors
    Health estimate approxi- mately one-third of the U.S. adult population is now obese, with a body mass ... kilograms divided by height in meters squared. From 2000 to 2005 alone, the obesity rate increased by 24 ...

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    • Authors: John Dawson, Pierre-Yves Cremieux, Arindam Ghosh
    • Date: Jan 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining
  • Provider Payment Reform: An Accountable Care Approach to Alignment of Health Care Goals and Incentives
    Provider Payment ... 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 Provider ... 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 (2) ...

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    • Authors: Mark Florian
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Payment models; Public Policy; Reinsurance>Stop-loss insurance
  • Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council
    Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council Report on the ... Council Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups. Consumer-driven ...

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    • Authors: Heather E Jerbi, Melissa Lawler
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Long-term Care; Public Policy
  • 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
  • Health Watch Article Contest on Provider Payment Reform
    Health Watch Article Contest on Provider Payment Reform Description and specifications ... Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: May 2010
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Leadership>Thought leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Economics>Health economics
  • 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
  • Modeling Anti-selective Lapse and Optimal Pricing in Individual and Small Group Health Insurance
    conditions that if =M, then L =1/2 and vice versa. S is an “s”-shaped monotonically increasing function with ... if z=1. A special case for S is a step function with S(z)=0 if z <1, S(z) =1 if z >1 and if z=1 (Figure ...

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    • Authors: D Wei
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions
    plans separately, while others were shown a single table containing all potential plan options with corresponding ... following table tells you how much you would pay in premium for the deductable you select. TABLE OF MONTHLY ...

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    • Authors: Alexander Leung, Jonah Yearick, Randy P Herman
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Technology & Applications>E-commerce