Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: The entire issue of Health Watch.

Description: This study was sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section. This paper explores the relative significance of aging as a determinant of financial cost of health care beyond age 50, with particular attention to the effect for ages 65 and older. The paper presents concepts of aging factors and aging curves, which define relative values between ages for utilization or cost of health care services. General conclusions are drawn from Medicare data that utilization and cost differ by age, but that aging factors vary across services and may be less significant at very old ages. The author then turns to the question of measuring the significance of an aging curve assumption and what accuracy is lost in the simpler alternative of a single value across an age range.

Description: News release on Health Care Costs Institute and it's mission to promote research on the causes of rising U.S health spending.

Description: Article describes enhanced primary care models and provides citations on whether or not health care savings have been achieved.

Description: This article defines population health and discusses what is needed to manage population health under value based contracts.

Description: Read the October 2017 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section. Practical information for actuaries, articles impact sections, section activities.

Description: An actuarial model that provides financial incentives to providers to offer patients an approach that can reverse chronic disease and reduce health care costs

Description: The article gives actuaries an introduction to Academy Health, the notable health policy research organization.

Description: The article reviews high-deductible health plans and poor reimbursement for mental health providers as being the root of 3 devastating problems facing the US.