Description: A review of the academic article "Health Insurance for ‘Humans’: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare."

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: An approach to quantify medical intervention savings when medical claims data is not available by leveraging overlapping measurement techniques.

Description: Improving access to health care throughout life by requiring a minimum mandatory paid-up period MMPP. Issue No. 35.

Description: This article describes the results of three years of work by Blue Shield of California to collaborate with hospitals and physician organizations to reduce cost and improve quality for commercial populations in targeted geographies.

Description: A Simplified Method for Calculating Contract Reserves for individual medical insurance. From Health Section News, June 1998, Issue No. 35.

Description: Mental health spending has reached $147 billion in the United States with demand only increasing greatly impacting society as nearly 1 in 5 experience these issues. There are even more indirect costs associated with mental health causing a national crisis surpassing 1 percent of the GDP. These costs coupled with the severe lack of licensed clinicians calls for an innovative solution. Through years of development and completion of a randomized controlled trial, Prevail has built and validated a low-cost, scalable solution. Prevail's clinically proven digital mental health treatment provides increased access to care while reducing overall health costs. Private and public payors should being reimbursing this model and offering it to their members.

Description: What No One Ever Told Me About the Rate Filing Process: how to deal the unspoken rules and politics. From Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: Milliman performed an analysis of 894 uses of the checking service on individual medical health insurance applications to gain a better understanding of its protective value. From Health Watch Newsletter, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: Discussion of direct primary care and how it helps with several challenges in health care today. DPC improves care coordination, improves outcomes, improves doctor and patient satisfaction, and reduces spending. DPC successes promote the view that primary care should not be covered by insurance; rather, it should be paid for directly.