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: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: Interview of people knowledgeable about risk adjustment and the use of social determinants of health with that context for Medicaid.

Description: This article discusses some of the most important considerations in implementing risk adjustment within a Medicaid Managed Care program. From Health Watch, January 2008, No. 57.

Description: This article focuses on the capitation rate development methodology for the Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Demonstration. It also describes the background behind the establishment of the initiative and how it will be evaluated.

Description: Background on Medicaid and description of recent changes in the program.

Description: Beneficiaries who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid often have complex health needs. The two programs have not typically been well integrated and care can become uncoordinated, fragmented and incomplete. The ACA includes provisions to address the shortcomings.

Description: Feature article presenting a synopsis of the Social Insurance and Public Finance Pension Sub-committee.

Description: This article gives part of the testimony provided to a U.S. House Subcommittee about Medicaid abuse. Specifically, it explains how families with ample means are able to skirt the law and obtain Medicaid funding of nursing home care when private Long Term Care insurance should have been considered.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."