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  • Getting Started with Advanced Analytics: The How and Why

    Getting Started with Advanced Analytics: The How and Why How actuaries can become comfortable accessing, integrating and building complex data sets from big and broad sources of information to ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Pence
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • Medicaid Risk-Based Managed Care Financial Results: A Decade in Review

    Medicaid Risk-Based Managed Care Financial Results: A Decade in Review This article provides an overview of the financial results of managed care plans over time using a collection of the NAIC ...

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    • Authors: Jeremy Palmer
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Industry Perspective Consumer Protection -Continuation of Benefits in Event of HMO Insolvency

    Industry Perspective Consumer Protection -Continuation of Benefits in Event of HMO Insolvency Discussion of insolvency provision added to reinsurance agreements to insure the continuation of ...

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    • Authors: Harry L Sutton
    • Date: Dec 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • A Health Insurance Insolvency Case Study

    A Health Insurance Insolvency Case Study Article discusses what happends when an insurer fails, role of the guaranty association and what is an ideal insolvency. From Health Section News, August ...

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    • Authors: Willis B Howard
    • Date: Aug 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Navigating New Horizons…Dawn E. Helwig, FSA, MAAA

    Navigating New Horizons…Dawn E. Helwig, FSA, MAAA An interview with Dawn Helwig on developments in the Long Term Care market. Assumptions;Funding policy;Home health care;Lapse rates=Lapses;Life ...

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    • Authors: Mary Kindel Van der Heijde
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data>Long-term care - Experience Studies & Data; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Long-term Care>Public financing - Long-term Care
  • Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council

    Soundbites from the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on ...

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    • Authors: Heather E Jerbi, Tim M Mahony
    • Date: Sep 2010
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Professional network leverage; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Public Policy; Public Policy; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare
  • Letter from the Editor

    Letter from the Editor Recap of content contained in the October 2013 issue of the Health Watch newsletter. Health insurance;Medicaid;Health care costs;Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act= ...

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    • Authors: Kurt Wrobel
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Public Policy
  • Pharmacoeconomics: Why ShouldActuaries Care?

    Pharmacoeconomics: Why ShouldActuaries Care? Article presents arguements for actuarial involvement to facilitate use of pharmaceutical research within managed care organizations MCO. Issue No.

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    • Authors: Jill Van Den Bos
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • Genomic Testing: Cost-Saving or Cost-Inflating for Payers?

    Genomic Testing: Cost-Saving or Cost-Inflating for Payers? As private payers ponders the early adoption of genomic testing to guide treatment pathways, can personalized approaches to care prove ...

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    • Authors: Didier Serre
    • Date: Feb 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • Getting Actuaries More Engaged in Population Health

    Getting Actuaries More Engaged in Population Health Introduction to population health, a collaborative discipline that seeks to leverage all the determinants of health personal behaviors, ...

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    • Authors: Robert D Lieberthal
    • Date: Jan 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Public Policy; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics