Description: The article describes the insurance industry's preparation for pandemic events and the public finance response.

Description: The SOA analyzed Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) claims data from 2009 – 2015 to better understand cost and utilization trends in the commercial health insurance market.

Description: The report looks at the different outcomes for the 50 states from the ACA, in terms of cost and availability of health insurance coverage. It identifies 11 key observations since the passage of the ACA.

Description: This session will present the findings published in the report released by the SOA on the March 23, 2020, the 10th anniversary of the ACA.This session will provide an assessment and commentary on the viability of the individual and Medicaid marketplaces under the ACA since its inception. Observations will be based on a data-driven analysis of the associations between market characteristics and measureable outcomes indicative of viability. Viability will be measured in the context of achieving the ACA's goal of providing sustainable access to affordable healthcare to the uninsured and underinsured, and will be considered from the perspectives of various stakeholders.

Description: Technical report to accompany Fifty States, Fifty Stories: A Decade of Health Care Reform Under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Dataset to accompany Fifty States, Fifty Stories: A Decade of Health Care Reform Under the Affordable Care Act - Technical Report

Description: The SOA is pleased to make available a research report providing insight and considerations for the actuarial profession in assessing the potential risk and opportunities of MACRA to both provider and payer organizations.

Description: Update on Affordable Care Act topics, including Section 1332 waivers, Association Health Plans, silver loading and cost sharing reductions.

Description: States can make ACA markets more attractive by enforcing compliance. Unlike other state opportunities, it doesn't cost anything. Pennsylvania made the change this year.

Description: Health insurance company assets and liabilities have evolved since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010. The ACA fundamentally rearranged how commercial health insurance is funded by integrating federal premium subsidies and pass-throughs together with a marketplace interwoven with transfer payments among stakeholders. The impacts of these programs can be seen in specific accounting items on the balance sheets of health insurance companies over the past 10 years. Their emergence follows three primary trends: (1) balance sheet items tend to be larger and take longer to settle, (2) there are more interactions among items, and (3) the final settlement amounts are more uncertain.