Description: Affordable Care Act and Payment Reform

Description: A Regulatory Perspective on Rate Review Before and After the Affordable Care Act

Description: Round table discussion regarding the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Recap of content contained in the October 2013 issue of the Health Watch newsletter.

Description: Panel discusses trends in large health claims, recent experience, and future expectations, as well as the impact of managed care on large individual health claims under self-insured programs and under an HMO setting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Recap of content contained in the January 2014 issue of the Health Watch newsletter.

Description: Considerable attention has been given in the recent past to the likely economic and social impact of Australia’s ageing population. One particular aspect which continues to be the subject of increased commentary and conjecture, is the need and subsequent costs for Long Term Care LTC. In this paper, a multiple state projection model based on a framework by Rickayzen and Walsh 2002 is constructed in order to project the number of people in Australia who are likely to require LTC.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.