Description: A summary of a preliminary report from the Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, on guidelines for quantifying balance sheet items in an insurance enterprise.

Description: This article is based on a third party administrator study and explores the relationships between family structure, spare capacity and health care utilization.

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: Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment reform.

Description: Identifying and submitting all appropriate ICD-9 diagnosis codes to CMS will result in a higher risk score for the member and increased payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Milliman's HCC prevalence study illustrates the significant variations in HCC prevalence rates by age/gender, geography, and population type and will assist plans in benchmarking the effectiveness of their own diagnosis code capture efforts.

Description: The entire issue of Health Watch.

Description: When your goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable Realistic and Time-Based, you’ve got a good foundation for performance improvement.

Description: Discusses creating a user-friendly [and bullet-proof] spreadsheet.

Description: This is a link to an article that describes the Competency Framework Self-Assessment Tool that measures your skill level for each of eight competencies. By using the CF and the Self-Assessment Tool you can identify areas where improvement is needed so you can focus your professional development to help further your career.

Description: The author explores reasons why blocks of business may become legacy blocks and discusses ways to decrease the likelihood of legacy blocks in the future.