Description: Improve pharmacy cost forecasting by developing induced demand curves for pharmacy costs.

Description: Describes the Society of Actuaries' Research Expanding Boundaries Funding Pool and the application process for obtaining funds.

Description: SOA 2012 Health Meeting Interview with Chairperson Daniel Bailey

Description: Analysis of the projected impact of the Affordable Care Act on Medicare Part C revenue over 2014 through 2017, with background on recent historical revenue trends. The analysis is largely based on CMS published data, with trend analysis based on the Medicare Trustees report and author's assumptions.

Description: Excerpts from a conversation with Alan Mills regarding his work in complexity science and agent-based modeling.

Description: How actuaries can become comfortable accessing, integrating and building complex data sets from big and broad sources of information to study the value of multidimensional drivers of change.

Description: Highlights of articles that appear in this issue.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Health Section Council and Financial Reporting Section Council jointly developed a survey to gauge how actuaries are progressing with respect to new potential assets or liabilities creaated by the Affordable Care Act. This article summarizes the results of the survey

Description: The article explores actuarial pricing issues that will occur for the first time in 2016, such as risk adjustment rating, suppressed utilization, surge in Exchange enrollment, and an updated Actuarial Value calculator.

Description: The Behavioral Finance subgroup of the Health Section will be publishing a series of literature reviews in Health Watch. This is the first review of three in the series. The reviewed article describes an attempt to place an econometric value on consumers’ preferences between broad and narrow networks.