Description: What’s New in Disease Management Medicare Modernization Act, certification of DM outcomes, DM publications. Issue No. 48

Description: This is one of a series of SOA-sponsored papers on the subject of Evaluating the Results of Care Management Interventions. This paper addresses the theory of measurement design and provides a practical evaluation of the most common designs for the practitioner.

Description: Appendix to the Critical Review of Stochastic Simulation Literature and Applications for Health Actuaries. The Development of a Simulation Model of Primary Prevention Strategies for Coronary Heart Disease

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: Projecting start-up capital requirements for Health care co-ops and public plans

Description: A summary of a survey the Society of Actuaries recently conducted of health payer and provider executives to glean insights into predictive analytics trends.

Description: An actuary presents his concerns regarding the imposition of continuing professional development requirements for actuaries primarily on principle and the requirement's economic implications. Another actuary presents rebuttal which will assist all actuaries in an understanding of how the board reached the decision to institute the continuing education standards.

Description: A study on stochastic simulation literature as it applies to a health actuary.

Description: A dinner speech at the Actuarial Research Conference at Drake University, Des Moines IA summer 2023. A ramble through 50 years of experience with actuarial research.

Description: This is an article about population risk management and using it to reduce health insurance costs.