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  • Risk Adjustment in State Medicaid Programs
    Risk Adjustment in State Medicaid Programs This article discusses some of the most important considerations ... Medicaid Managed Care program. From Health Watch, January 2008, No. 57. Managed care;Risk adjustment; ...

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    • Authors: Robert Damler, Ross Winkelman
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Social Insurance>Medicaid
  • Health Watch News
    legislation that restruc-tured a portion of the health care system. The main focus of Chapter 58 of the Acts ... Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care (the Act), was to extend affordable health insurance ...

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    • Authors: John Cookson, Roy Goldman, Steven Siegel, Robert Damler, Gail M Lawrence, Jim Toole, Brian Weible, Ross Winkelman, Bela Gorman, Heather E Jerbi, Geralyn Trujillo, Kirk Luke Shanks
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Health Section News
    of the health care industryis occurring and is long overdue. Despiteescalating health care costs, health ... health care quality and access have not improved and may be worsening. Pay for performance, patient safety ...

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    • Authors: Karl Volkmar, Kara Clark, Ruth Ann Woodley, Denise Love, Ross Winkelman, Alyssa Ann Zabloudil, Chris E Stehno, JEFF ALLAN SCHULTE
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Health Watch News
    correlations. Cost increases in the realm of health care have also been a significant driving force. This ... It has gone from a technique used by some managed care plans to evaluate providers to a sophisticated tool ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Ian G Duncan, Gail M Lawrence, Gregory Fann, Ross Winkelman, Rowen Bell, Syed Mehmud
    • Date: Sep 2007
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Risky Business in the Big Easy Highlights from the 2005 SOA Spring Health and Pension Meeting
    "Financing Chronic Care," "Affordability: The Market Response," and "An Introduction to Care and Disease Management ... physicians receive a bonus for meeting quality of care criteria. This approach aligns financial incentives ...

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    • Authors: Ross Winkelman, Chris E Stehno
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Letter From the Editor: Passing the Torch
    Letter From the Editor: Passing the Torch Former co-editor looks back on his work, offering thanks ... work with some extraordinary actuaries and health care profession- als. I want to thank the HealthWatch ...

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    • Authors: Ross Winkelman
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Leadership>Thought leadership
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations
  • Letter From the Editor
    health ac-tuaries and others working in health care is that the practice of medicine is fragmented ... mind) while others might not (long term health care cost trends based on the discussion in this issue ...

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    • Authors: Ross Winkelman
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices