Description: This article looks at pharmacy benefit management and the use of data, reviews standard pharmacoeconomic analysis methods, and discusses points for formulary decision making and what is known about the process. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: The implications of the new long-term care law for individuals, employers, insurers and providers, and the federal government.

Description: A rethinking of current provider reimbursement, focusing on incentives instead of simply cutting fees. The recommended 2-pronged approach would feature integrated provider organizations as well as evidence-based decision making organized around episodes of care.

Description: Actuaries should understand the economic considerations involved in the formulary drug decision-making process, and the presence of actuarial input in the process could improve it, especially by tying it to overall decision making for the health plan. From Prescription Drugs Monograph, M-HB04-1.

Description: The Health Section Research Team is pleased to make available the following research study and Excel model that provide a framework for estimating the financial impact of health plan provider network risk. The Excel workbook allows the user to assess cost implications of aspects of network risk under various assumptions.

Description: This research report, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries' Health Section, measures the annual frequency of medical errors in the United States and the total measurable cost to the United States economy of these errors.

Description: The Health Section Research Team is pleased to make available the following research study and Excel model that provide a framework for estimating the financial impact of health plan provider network risk. The research was conducted by the Denver office of Milliman, Inc. The Excel workbook allows the user to assess cost implications of aspects of network risk under various assumptions. The assumptions in the workbook can be altered by the user and be applied to test a range of scenarios.

Description: The implications of the new long-term care law for individuals, employers, insurers and providers, and the federal government.

Description: Research report measuring the annual frequency of medical errors in the United States and the total measurable cost to the United States economy of these errors.

Description: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) include the social and physical conditions in which people are born, live and work on a daily basis. This project advances a growing body of literature to inform the ongoing optimization of population health and payment models.