Description: Actuaries can apply their experience helping health plans lower costs and premiums within the new world of provider-led accountable care organizations.

Description: Interview with leader Shari Westerfield.

Description: It is a description of the 13 subgroups which currently exist, gives a brief description of the expectations of a subgroup leader, and a request for volunteers.

Description: Financial reconciliation is critical to a successful Medicare Advantage (MA) bid. Reconciliation should be routinely revisited as new information arises.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpts from a recent white paper regarding the Individual Mandate.

Description: Overview of public health (responsibilities, funding, challenges) and discussion of the role actuaries can play in achieving population health goals.

Description: The article reviews high-deductible health plans and poor reimbursement for mental health providers as being the root of 3 devastating problems facing the US.

Description: Leader interview.

Description: Read the October 2019 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section. Practical information for actuaries, articles impact sections, section activities. This is the first digital-only issue of the newsletter.

Description: This article provides an overview of behavioral economic theory as it relates to health and welfare insurance plans and provides summaries of two sample applications of the theories: enrollment in health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and product design considerations in light of vast health illiteracy.