Description: Discussion of the impact of the ACA on RBS and required surplus for a health plan

Description: Interviews with several actuaries who are subject matter experts in the health field to get their perspectives on implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the current and future challenges in the employee benefits area, is the actuarial profession adequately preparing its members to meet those challenges, and do our clients and publics view us as playing a vital role in employee benefits developments.

Description: This article introduces a research report that studied the relationship of nontraditional variables with health costs.

Description: Letter from the Editor

Description: This paper will examine why CSR defunding produces pricing uncertainty and how regulators can alleviate these risks when insurers price 2020 premiums.

Description: Update on Health Section activities 2012-2013.

Description: Preparing an effective actuarial memorandum in support of the health actuarial opinion.

Description: The article discusses the sustainability of the ACA individual market from a public entitlement standpoint. A key point of measuring sustainability is the reliance on market forces rather than federal budget constraints. The article explains why an actuarial viewpoint of sustainability is necessary to a greater extent than other public assistance and social insurance programs. The article challenges actuaries to be a bold, objective voice in a space that is full of opinionated but often uninformed viewpoints.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at redirecting the traditional role of the actuary into new areas such as working with doctors to deal with medical management issues, dealing and negotiating with providers and how to help the company develop a provider payment strategy. Employers negotiating directly with providers is also discussed.