Description: This article reviews the cost of behavioral health care and looks at how the involvement of Primary Care Physicians leads to a less efficient and effective treatment and is an increasing cost many plans have yet to address. From Health Section Newsletter, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This session discussion is about the effect of changes in medical practices and technology, effect of cost shifting, measurement and analysis and employers' perspective. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists discuss the current trend environment and estimating future trend. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 29, No. 2, Session 52

Description: The editorial shares observations and lessons learned from the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Considerations in the applications of Predictive Modeling for health care management. Issue No. 47.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the techniques for understanding and analyzing trends in medical care, including: utilization and cost components, analysis of cyclical behavior, use of econometric models, and aggregate trend vs. employer-specific needs.

Description: SOA’s Pension and Health Sections recently released a new resource model for projecting health care trends through the year 2099.

Description: An approach to quantify medical intervention savings when medical claims data is not available by leveraging overlapping measurement techniques.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: This article describes methodologies for detection and deterrence of Medicare fraud. It also describes the validation of PRIDIT for fraud detection in Medicare.