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

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

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

Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: This article describes the Health Insurance Providers Fee implemented through Section 9010 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and discusses how the fee will creates challenges in Managed Medicaid Rate development. It also offers some suggested ways to include the fee in Managed Medicaid rates.

Description: An excerpt from a presentation at the 2014 Living to 100 Symposium, this article describes an open-source model for use by actuaries attempting to estimate future health benefit costs, discusses its strengths and limitations, and projects that spending for those age over 65 will take more than $13 trillion by 2055, about 50 percent of total medical expenditures.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision modeling.

Description: Read detailed analysis of a legislated act aimed in providing access to affordable, quality, accountable health care.

Description: This article focuses on the actuarial value calculator and the methodology used. It proposes potential future improvements to this model.

Description: This article focuses on the minimum value calculator and the methodology used. It proposes potential future improvements to this model.