Description: Discusses variability in per capita health-care costs by health-care provider.

Description: Voluntary health insurance coverage options are described including hospital indemnity, accident plans, disability insurance, and critical illness policies.

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that reviews the latest AHCA update and its impact on market stability from short-term and long-term points of view.

Description: A review of strategies for non-ACA products for small employers including level-funded plans, association health plans (AHPs), and multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs). Discussion will focus on market trends, strategy, pricing, and block management. Session will include some audience participation via polling so audience can crowd source information and identify industry trends.

Description: This chapter focuses on creating practical models that aid in the prediction of the risk of readmission to a specific hospital within 30 days of discharge for Medicare patients, to aid in the identification and stratification of at-risk patients for hospitals considering building an intervention program in a cost-effective manner. For readers who wish to develop their own predictive model, a dataset is provided on the Actexmadriver.com website, and R code is provided in the appendix to this chapter.

Description: With the medical insurance market experiencing health care inflation of 10 to 13 percent and medical costs averaging above $8,000 per year per employee less for single employees and more for employees with families, employers are looking at alternative options. Politicians and regulators are as well.

Description: This is the second article in a four–part series. In this article, the industry's products are examined.

Description: In this session we will discuss the impact of regulation changes that will allow members with End State Renal Disease (ESRD) to sign up for Medicare Advantage in 2021 for the first time. We will delve into the current basics of how ESRD works, the characteristics of the population that is currently on original medicare today, and a comprehensive look at what plan sponsors should be thinking about going into 2021.

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