Description: This session discusses affordable health care including cost drivers, trends, the uninsured, federal funding and state initiatives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 109

Description: Panelists discuss the current trend environment and estimating future trend. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 29, No. 2, Session 52

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting presents various predictive models, evaluation methodologies, control groups, current and potential uses for predictive modeling and issues surrounding implementation of a predictive modeling process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss opportunities to improve medical cost trends through underwriting, healthcare benefit designs, contracting, network management, claims operations, and medical management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 40

Description: This 1981 session focused on cost containment programs for health care in Canada and the US. Topics included: 1. Possible changes - improved plan design 2. Ways to stimulate change - market forces vs. regulation 3. Untapped cost control-health education for employees - health lifestyles & disease prevention 4. Information sources From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This session describes the process payers and employers can use to evaluate emerging medical device technologies, recent or pending FDA submissions for prescription drugs and experimental treatments that impact patient care, resource utilization and health care expenditures. We will walk through the process of identifying and selecting impactful treatments (Horizon Scanning) and quantifying the financial cost of new technologies before they arrive in the market. These workflows can be leveraged by actuaries, healthcare economists, clinicians and pharmacists from a payer (Commercial and Medicare) and employer perspective for self-funded plans. We will also walk through some sample models that illustrate how costs for emerging technologies and treatments can be modeled.

Description: Read the October 2018 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section. Practical information for actuaries, articles impact sections, section activities.

Description: Why and how to set up an advance directive, in case a health event renders you unable to make your own medical to decisions.

Description: The Effect of Medical Technology on Health Care Cost, the Effect of Health Care on Longevity and Vice Versa.

Description: Because of increasing longevity in the world's population, a larger proportion of people will live long enough to develop chronic diseases. Because of their large numbers and extent of their individual expenses, the public sector will need to intervene to help these patients and their families. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.