Description: This article discusses the advantages, logistical concerns, and pricing formulas of implementing a TNHP, in which members pay less for treatment from providers who meet higher quality and cost-effectiveness standards.

Description: Overview of public health (responsibilities, funding, challenges) and discussion of the role actuaries can play in achieving population health goals.

Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.

Description: Presented at August 2011 46th Actuarial Research Conference. Discussion of research in progress which examines and validates the use of PRIDIT as a hospital quality measure. PRIDIT is an unsupervised learning technique developed as a fraud detection method.

Description: This paper provides an outline of three potential initiatives that may be undertaken by the government and the private sector. The first initiative aims at reducing the cost of health care at the provider level. The second initiative provides a means to improve the quality of health care. The third initiative creates a constructive basis for identifying medical best practices to enhance quality.

Description: The editors of Health Watch have made health care reform the focus of the Sepctember 2009 issue, and provide an introduction to the issue's contents.

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: Feature article with helpful hints on video conferencing and more!

Description: Introduction to additional actuarial research into development of and regulatory impact, economic impact and consumer impact of prescription drugs in the United States. Intended to further educate actuaries and others who work in this area and motivate more actuarial involvement to increase transparency, increase competition, better align stakeholder incentives and better mitigate total cost of care increases