Description: Discover the key components of value-based care (VBC) contracts and their impact on provider credibility. Learn about benchmarks, measurement period results, and the unique challenges providers face in managing insurance risk. Gain insights into reducing costs and aligning financial incentives in the US healthcare market.

Description: Health claims are not normally distributed. Claims Forecasting can be improved by understanding the entire distribution of plausible values of future claims, for example knowing there is an 80% chance future claims are between $340 and $375 PMPM. Confidence intervals around our estimates allow us to understand for each range around the best estimate (for example +/- 1%) what is the probability that future claims will fall in that range. Quantile Regression is a mathematical technique where you can estimate any percentile of the claims distribution you are looking for as a function of demographics, diagnosis indicators, prior cost variables, or other significant predictors. You can see which coefficients are important at different parts of the distribution. Individual and group distributions can be constructed. There are numerous applications in pricing and underwriting, stop loss, provider profiling, ACO target setting, allocation of group risk charges based on volatility, discounting strategy, and experience analysis.

Description: Mining Electronic Health Records using a Natural Language Processor.

Description: Results of a survey of healthcare organizations regarding use and plans for Predictive Analytics

Description: This article discusses the use of parametric distributions to model health care cost.

Description: Overview of opportunities for actuaries in business analytics, as well as the applied statistics and programming skills necessary to succeed.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision 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: Abstracts of recent articles of interest to health actuaries