Description: During the past few years, performance, cost, and risk trends for Medigap products have undergone substantial changes. Some of these trends could ease cost pressures on Medigap insurers, while others might increase them. Part 1 of this Issue Brief article discusses current changing trends and considerations around about how they are impacting Medigap.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute developed a new study to explore pharmacy financing. The goals of the SOA related to this research are to identify opportunities to increase transparency, encourage competition, align stakeholder incentives and mitigate increases in total cost of care. The research uses a value-based methodology.

Description: The article explores how integrating AI into insurer apps can address critical challenges in healthcare, such as patient no-shows, medication adherence, and cost management. These non-disruptive approaches aim to increase the effectiveness of patient interventions and improve medication adherence.

Description: The coming wave of biosimilars could dramatically affect prescription drug costs and benefit strategies over the next several years. The launch of many Humira biosimilars in 2023 is the Big Event that will largely determine the impact of the biosimilar wave. Payers have many decisions to make about coverage and formulary tiers. What factors will drive payer decision-making?

Description: This is Part 2 of 2 on changes affecting Medigap insurers. It focuses on marketing and regulatory differences between Medigap and Medicare Advantage that affect the competitiveness of Medigap plans.

Description: Read this report to learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.

Description: Learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.

Description: Health is wealth, but much needed medical insurance for various needs is perceived solely for the wealthy and elusive to many. This webcast brings two highly regarded speakers in the health sphere to bust the myth that medical insurance is reserved for the wealthy and only covers known illnesses. The discussions will further dwell on products that are designed based on financial capability and customized needs while transgressing on risks and sustainability of creative products such as mental health.

Description: ReMark's Global Consumer Study delivers 10 key insights to empower customers. Insurers can design products that meet customers' needs and enhance client experiences and add significant value to their business. At the same time with new products being launched seemingly continuously, it is important to take a step back and assess risk throughout the product management cycle.