Description: The author, Mary Pat Campbell, participated in the 4th season of the Good Judgment Project, a prediction tournament. She explains the basic metric used for evaluating predictions in the contest and some of the lessons learned from her participation.

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: Editor's Note for June 2012 International News

Description: A brief overview of the continuing care at home model which offers life care contracts for older adults who prefer to age in their homes for as long as possible but want the security that a retirement community offers.

Description: New for 2017, we are introducing a series of articles by experienced industry professionals who are relatively new to long-term care (LTC).

Description: This 2004 article discusses current issues and developments relating to the valuation of and accounting for employee stock options.

Description: This article reviews the database program, MS Access, as a solution to actuaries in small companies to access information themselves rather than relying on information system personnel. The article describes how to set up the process and also uses of the information.

Description: Editor introduction to the Fall 2017 edition of Small Talk.

Description: This article provides guidelines to help you to take charge of your career by creating visibility for yourself.

Description: This article is about understanding the role of the recruiter from both the company's and the candidate's perspectives.