Description: The intention of this piece is to introduce the general premise of ERM to those of you who are just now starting to hear about it.

Description: Savings from biosimilars have accelerated significantly in the past few years. There has been a number of relatively recent biosimilar launches that can help to shape our expectations of the financial impact that could result from this year’s big event. Savings from biosimilars have accelerated significantly in the past few years. There has been a number of relatively recent biosimilar launches that can help to shape our expectations of the financial impact that could result from this year’s big event.

Description: This Q&A article discusses the use of machine learning to analyze unstructured data. Supriya Ramachandra, a data scientist at SIKKA, explains how her team uses natural language processing techniques, technical aspects of neural networks, LSTM modeling, and natural language processing. Machine learning allows for the classification of large amounts of unorganized data, providing actionable information for actuaries.

Description: Overview of the June 2020 SOA Health Virtual meeting focusing on healthcare actuarial topics.

Description: Discusses challenges faced by the people living in the remote town of Brewster, Nebraska.

Description: Summary of lessons learned from Health Insurer Chief Actuaries' prior economic recession experience and suggestions for those leading Health insurers through future recessions

Description: MACRA not only impact providers, it will impact the entire healthcare market. MACRA published studies and commentary to date have primarily focused on providers, with the majority of the information addressing the impacts to clinicians. However, our investigation indicates MACRA has far reaching impacts to payers as well as providers. MACRA is impacting each geographic market and line of business in a unique way, and health payers will have multiple strategic decisions to consider given the changing market dynamics.

Description: Discussion on Ebola, how it spreads and whether or not it is an epidemic or pandemic.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: This article explores telemedicine's impact on the health care system, health care costs, and actuarial pricing.