Description: Provides an overview of developments in the healthcare market including provider billing practices. Provides an overview of the Government Finance Officer’s Association (GFOA) in New York on Dec. 6, 2018

Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: Article describes enhanced primary care models and provides citations on whether or not health care savings have been achieved.

Description: The article gives actuaries an introduction to Academy Health, the notable health policy research organization.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that shows a study on a long-term disability insurance portfolio under stochastic interest rates.

Description: As part of the SOA’s July 22, 2020, COVID-19 Virtual Symposium, Marketing and Distribution (MaD) Section Council members presented “Selling Insurance Six Feet Apart” with insight into emerging sales and marketing processes, challenges, and opportunities for the product spaces noted

Description: In 1983, a poultry virus hit the jackpot in Pennsylvania. While making a copy of its genetic material, the virus made a tiny error. Because of that error, it began producing a slightly altered protein which allowed the normally benign organism to spread beyond its usual residence in chicken lungs and intestines. Soon it was burrowing into other parts of the birds’ bodies - including the nervous system, where it multiplied rapidly and began to cause disease. Could something like this happen to humans?

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #2 by SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: This article provides a summary of selected sessions of the October 2010 NAIC meeting.