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2025
March
- SOA Health Meeting 2025: Your Gateway to Continuing Education and Networking
- Behavioral Economics Confounds Health Insurance Design and Pricing
January
- Greetings from the Incoming Chair
- An Exploration of Inpatient Maternity Rates in Price Transparency Data: How One Payer Negotiated the Lowest Rates in the Region
2024
November
- Health Section - Year in Review
- Surprises in the No Surprises Act: An Interview with Greg Fann (Part 2)
September
- 2024 SOA Health Meeting in Review
- Surprises in the No Surprises Act: An Interview with Greg Fann
- PBM Issues
May
- A Survey of the Fast-Evolving Landscape for Cell and Gene Therapy Coverage in the United States
- Calculation of Confidence Intervals for IBNR Estimates Using the Average PMPM Method
- Modeling the Unwinding—Where Are We Now?
- Harnessing Machine Learning to Analyze Unstructured Data
March
- Issue Brief: Changing Financial Risks for Medigap Insurance, Part 1
- Issue Brief: Changing Financial Risks for Medigap Insurance, Part 2
January
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Biosimilars, Part 5: Payer Decision Making
- Biosimilars, Part 6: Maximizing Adoption
2023
November
- Claims Reserve Margin in the Health Annual Statement: A Review of 2016–2021
- Biosimilars, Part 3: Humira Biosimilar Launches
- Biosimilars, Part 4: The Financial Impact
September
- Critical Illness Turns 40!
- Biosimilars, Part 1: A Brief Introduction
- Biosimilars, Part 2: The Coming Wave
July
May
- The Application of Data Blending to Resolve Unrelated Dimensions: A Tableau Use-Case for Calculating Per Member Per Year
- Give Me Some Credibility: Addressing the Challenge of Volatility in Value-Based Contracts—Part 2
- A Mental Health State of the Union
March
- The Run-Away 340B Drug Subsidy Program
- US Health Care System: Reality vs. Reform
- Give Me Some Credibility: Addressing the Challenge of Volatility in Value-Based Contracts—Part 1
January
- Chairperson's Corner
- Estimating IBNR for Paid Medical Claims with Zero Run-Out
- Health Plan Savings: Pie in the Sky, Understated or Real? Measurement Considerations and Tips
2022
September
- Responsible Machine Learning: Living Up to Our Professional Code of Conduct, ASOPs, and Corporate Requirements
- Response to March 2021 Practice Note on ASOP 6
- Our Value-Based Cup Runneth Over
June
- Understanding the Medical Stop-Loss Market
- Restoring the Indifference Ideal: If It’s Not Adjusting for “Risk,” It’s Not “Risk Adjustment”
January
2021
December
- Navigate through Risk-Based Capital with Success
- Better Care Through Understanding the Customer Not Just the Patient
October
September
- Medicare Supplement and FASB’s Long-Duration Targeted Improvements Project Part I: Context
- Medicare Supplement and FASB’s Long-Duration Targeted Improvements Project Part II: Conclusions
August
- Understanding Health in the Big Picture
- 2021 SOA Health Meeting Recap
- The Rise of Python: Powerful, Robust Calculation Software
July
- Incorporating Random Effects to Reduce Variance in Risk Score Estimation
- Leader Interview - Susan Pantely
May
- A Look at Top Health Care Systems Around the World
- Additional Actuarial Perspectives on Prescription Drug Financing
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March
- Intimate Partner Violence: The Shadow Pandemic Part 1: Background Briefing
- Intimate Partner Violence: The Shadow Pandemic Part 2: Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
March Special Edition
- Prevalence of Supplemental Benefits in the Medicare Advantage Marketplace: 2017 to 2021
- Medicare Advantage Expanded Supplemental Benefits Over the Years
- Opportunities for Bundling Medicare Supplement and Short-Term Care: The Perfect Match?
January
- Bridging the “Gap” Between Medicare Parts C and D: A Discussion of Important Considerations When Preparing Medicare Bids
- Managed Care 3.0 Technology
2020
December
- When Affordability Savings Do Not Reduce Costs
- Clearing Up Confusion Surrounding Continuing Education Requirements
- Comparing Model Error Between a Standard Risk Adjustment Model and a Disease-Specific Risk Adjustment Model
2019
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2018
2017
2016
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2015
Issue 79, December
The ACA@5, August
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