Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: The editors of Health Watch have made health care reform the focus of the Sepctember 2009 issue, and provide an introduction to the issue's contents.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: A Regulatory Perspective on Rate Review Before and After the Affordable Care Act

Description: Essential Health Benefits and Actuarial Value

Description: Medicare Advantage and ACA

Description: Individual Market and ACA Products Actuarial rating principals

Description: In the course of consulting engagements, actuaries almost always find they need one or more of the following resources: -Healthcare data, which may be at the individual patient level or on a particular population. -Health services research studies which describe, summarize, try to alter, or predict patients’ use of health resources. -Health policy information, which describe public or private actions which affect the access, cost and quality of medical care. This document describes the ever-changing resources and specifies where they may be obtained.