Description: Feature article focused on clarifying the SOA CPD requirements.

Description: Health care reform will require health insurers to change the way they make decisions on what to sell while remaining financially sound. The new regulatory reality of expanded access to coverage leaves insurers with fewer options for managing costs and business risk. With the introduction of risk adjustment mechanisms in the exchanges, the most profitable members will not necessarily be the lowest cost ones, but rather, the members which the health plan is relatively more effective at servicing. While Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 'PPACA' prohibits underwriting and using any health status information for denying coverage or varying the premium rates, this article describes how the use of consumer data will affect the way health insurers make decisions on what products to sell.

Description: Editorial discussing risk management in today’s economic world.

Description: This article discusses the different types of attitudes toward risk based on the prevailing economic climate.

Description: In this article about professional development, the new competency network is descibed and and emerging job opportunities in health care analytics are discussed.

Description: This article discusses what actuaries see as ideal components of a health care reform package with an emphasis on cost control, efficiency, elimination of fraud and reduction of errors.

Description: This article discusses the SOA’s CPD requirements and how to attest compliance.

Description: The April/May 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.