Description: An approach to quantify medical intervention savings when medical claims data is not available by leveraging overlapping measurement techniques.

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: Ian Duncan, FSA, MAAA, FCIA, FIA, is an admitted travel junkie and enjoys being on the road. From sunrise to sunset, he treks from city to city meeting with clients. When he's not bringing in new business and cultivating relationships with existing clients, he writes; he publishes; he volunteers; and time permitting, takes a rare vacation. His energy, enthusiasm and excitement serve him well as president of his own company, Solucia, Inc.

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: Evaluating the success of Disease Management Programs by looking at ROI and the risk management economic model. Issue No. 46.

Description: Highlights of health related articles from the North American Actuarial Journal. A paper on health care reform and efficiency is published in a recent issue of the NAAJ.

Description: Abstracts of two health articles from the NAAJ: 1. Multi-State Actuarial Models of Functional Disability and 2. Anatomy of a slow-motion death-spiral.

Description: Abstracts of recent articles of interest to health actuaries

Description: This is a regular column highlighting articles of interest to Health Actuaries appearing in the North American Actuarial Journal.