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  • Response to March 2021 Practice Note on ASOP 6
    than the consulting actuary’s statement of opinion on a private employer’s financial statement disclosure ... closed, they remain a material liability for many U.S. companies and public sector entities. As is so often ...

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    • Authors: Charles Edwards
    • Date: Aug 2022
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Health & Disability>Health care
  • Critical Illness Turns 40!
    made when a team of surgeons performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.[1] The team ... changed significantly over the last 40 years, Barnard’s vision lives on. There are now variations in the types ...

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    • Authors: Jennifer Howard, Ashlee Borcan
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Critical illness insurance; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Experience Studies & Data>Rate calculations; Health & Disability>Incidence; Health & Disability>Rates - Health & Disability; Health & Disability>Termination - Health & Disability
  • 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
  • Adjusting the 1985 NAIC Cancer Claim Cost Tables for Inflation
    used for policies with higher limits. The cancer table formulas for adjusting claim costs for changes in ... during the experience period underlying the table. The cancer table formu- las appear to anticipate that provider ...

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    • Authors: W Keith Sloan
    • Date: Feb 1998
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity
  • New Member Impact on Medicaid Managed Care Costs
    unemployment increases in their geographic region (see Table 1). The markets studied included Arizona, Maryland ... have, on average, higher health care costs (see Table 2) the study showed that the proportion of short– ...

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    • Authors: Bela H Patel Fernandez, Jeffrey L Smith
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare; Social Insurance>Medicaid