Description: This is a discussion of the medical loss ratio, the confusion and debate over the calculation method under the new MLR requirement, and the opportunities it presents to consulting actuaries.

Description: This article reviews the technological advances in connecting remotely to your office.

Description: December 2014 issue of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section’s newsletter, The Independent Consultant.

Description: This essay, submitted for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, proposes an entrepreneurial solution to address the continued, unsustainable increases in health care costs. Under the author’s plan, entrepreneurs will “develop systems providing clear financial motivation for consumers to make decisions that minimize health care spending and maximize positive health outcomes. In so doing, health care providers must necessarily compete to offer the highest quality services at the lowest cost. By relying on the financial self-interest of consumers and free-market competition among health care providers, effective and sustainable systems to bend the health care cost curve can be achieved.”

Description: This is an article about J. Bradley Murray, of Smart Tech Actuarial Consultants STAC, who provides actuarial and technology services to both the insurance companies who are actuaries' traditional marketplace, and to other kinds of businesses with non-traditional needs.