Description: A good primer on how clinical studies should be conducted and how statistics are used and misused to influence us.

Description: This report presents the results of a market research study to explore untapped opportunities for actuaries in the health care industry.

Description: Changes introduced by various Medicare Alternative Payment Models and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) have accelerated an existing market trend of shifting some of what has traditionally been considered “insurance risk” to providers. The Provider Risk Sharing Boot Camp will give attendees deeper insights into methods, current thinking, and alternative solutions that actuaries can use to help providers understand and manage the financial and actuarial risks that they are taking, many for the first time.

Description: Regular column written by the chairperson of the Health Section Council.

Description: The article provides insights about the need for revolutionary actuaries in Saudi Arabia due to the reform that is happening across the kingdom under all sectors. Then I talk briefly about the health sector and the transformation that is happing in the sector, and how qualified health actuaries can contribute to this health reform.

Description: Coverage of Medicaid home and community-based services under the 1915(i) state plan option: Attractive features and important considerations