Description: Actuaries team up with Payers and Providers, to share insight into their data-driven approaches for improving health plans' CMS Medicare Star Ratings, which leverage experiential analytics to create solutions. 'Experience' is the king-it is broader umbrella, which includes and addresses engagement, cultural competency, equity, cost, and lastly, 'quality'. By attending this session, you will be better equipped to turn real-life data into actionable business solutions-essentially, data science in action. Further, you will better appreciate the importance of stars and risk adjustment in the Medicare Advantage space, along with the consequences of coming up short.

Description: Actuaries today have unique opportunities to analyze, understand and use data for strategic decision making. With nearly unlimited computing power and a broad spectrum of data sources at our fingertips, we are enabled to support our actuarial judgment with comprehensive findings backed up by deep data analyses.

Description: Introducing Random Effects into Risk Score Models

Description: This is a page for section members that includes information on illustration actuary testing.

Description: Vender Referral Program highlights Thomson-West, a provider of NAIC, state and federal regulations.

Description: This article summarizes statutory reporting and the Pinciple-Based Initiative that the Academy, the industry and the regulators have been working on in the U.S. It addresses whether a principles-based approach will simplify reporting regulations and make them more flexible.

Description: New FSA Jordan Erp credits the restructured exam process with providing him with a borad view of the actuarial profession. This article is an overview Erp's experience and the restructured exam process.

Description: This article takes ideas from David Allen, a consultant, executive coach, educator and motivational speaker for methods for stress-free performance, mastering workflow and getting projects under control. He discusses getting organizing, setting priorities and other tips.

Description: Lifetime pension pools convert a lump sum into lifelong income, periodically adjusting benefit payouts based on mortality and investment experience. Volatility-targeting strategies can enhance benefit stability by dynamically adjusting the investment portfolio’s exposure to risky assets in the context of these pools, demonstrating superior performance compared to traditional static asset allocation methods.