Description: Comparison of Healthy Michigan and Healthy Indiana Plan Medicaid expansion programs.

Description: This article is about the most significant issues and trends that may impact long-term care LTC risks, care delivery and protection in the future.

Description: "The always popular Medicaid Hot Topics session is back with discussions from an expert panelist on the most riveting Medicaid topics of the year. These could include the following: • ACA court battles - what are the potential impacts on Medicaid? • CMS continues to open the door for state flexibility - just what can states now do differently?• Where are we on Medicaid work requirements? • How will the changes to the mega-rule impact Medicaid?• High cost drugs and how states are sharing risk for them (carve-out, risk pools, risk sharing)• And more current topics of interest to Medicaid actuaries!Medicaid is dynamic and it is difficult to stay up to date on all of the changes. This session provides insightful discussion into the major changes that impact actuaries and their companies or state clients"

Description: A proposal to reform current health care market, from a 'preferred payer' system, in which Medicare and Medicaid pay less than the true cost while others must then pay more, to a 'value for money' system. This would be achieved by requiring providers to bill all patients the same rate for the same services, with a standard bundling format to make all providers' rate differences transparent. Differences between billed charges and what Medicare pays would be made up by the Medicare patient, rather than subsidized by those outside of Medicare.

Description: Feature article describing the history and current state of the Medicare program.

Description: A discussion of the impact of the June, 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision on Medicaid expansion and the financial impications for states.

Description: June 2013 issue of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section newsletter, In The Public Interest.

Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: COVID-19 is causing changes to nursing homes that will last beyond the pandemic. Nursing homes serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries; so, in the public interest, we should consider how changes to nursing homes might impact these populations.