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  • The Rise of Python: Powerful, Robust Calculation Software
    calculations Policyholder asset look-through Lapse and mortality investigations Analyzing past policyholder performance ... it after his favorite comedy troupe, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He had observed that computers were ...

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    • Date: Aug 2021
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software; Technology & Applications>Artificial intelligence & machine learning; Technology & Applications>Automation; Technology & Applications>Finance transformation; Technology & Applications>Visualization
  • The Retirement Needs Framework: Issues for Health Actuaries
    The Retirement Needs Framework: Issues for Health Actuaries Article presents issues for postretirement ... December 2000, Issue No. 39. Asset modeling;Markov Chain;Stochastic models; 9363 12/1/2000 12:00:00 ...

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    • Authors: Anna M Rappaport
    • Date: Dec 2000
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Long-term Care; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Incurred Health Claims:One Lag Report is Not Enough
    rather than the 24 months that were available. Table 1 on page 10 is the traditional claim lag report ... 12-month experience period ending 10/31/2001, while Table 2 on page 10 distributes the same claims on the ...

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    • Authors: Henry Frantz
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Underwriting Gain in Managed Medicaid: Starting the Conversation
    Underwriting Gain in Managed Medicaid: Starting the Conversation According to ... Conversation According to the Actuarial Standards Board’s Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 49 (ASOP 49), actuarially ...

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    • Authors: Jaredd Martin Keith Simons, James Randolph Piekut
    • Date: Nov 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
  • 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
  • Complexity Science - A New Frontier for Actuarial Exploration
    Complexity Science - A New Frontier for Actuarial Exploration Review of a report by Alan Mills introducing ... be the century of complexity.” —Stephen Hawking, 2000 “Wanna get it right this time. Complicated is ...

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    • Authors: Steven Siegel
    • Date: Jan 2011
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Letter from the Editors
    with the notable changes likely to occur in the U.S. health care system, it’s interesting to see how ... with similar issues. For better or for worse, the U.S. health care system is unique among those used ...

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    • Authors: Grady Catterall, Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Global Perspectives; Modeling & Statistical Methods