Healthcare Contingency Reserves: Expanding Beyond Financial Resources to include Physical Resources
In the U.S. insurance industry, health insurers are known to hold onto large amounts of cash reserve as [...]
Pandemic Reserves
As I sit at my desk looking out the window at the rain covered streets, barely a person [...]
Pandemic Risk Management: Lessons From Ancient Egypt
In a time when fear and anxiety seem to grip an entire world, the small population of risk [...]
Protect 1 and Save 1000
Presented By: Richard L. Liliedahl, MD Erik D. Axene, MD Oscar M. Lucas, ASA, FCA, MAAA David [...]
The US Healthcare Reserve and COVID-19
Much is being said in the news this week about the impact of COVID-19 and the potential [...]
A Hard Pill to Swallow: Appreciating the Mathematical Dynamics of the Affordable Care Act
AbstractThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) is recognized for its role in reducing the uninsured rate in the United [...]
2020 Health and Wellness Report: An Effective Tool to Reduce Health Costs
Overview For many years wellness has been viewed from somewhat of a skeptical perspective. Intuitively, the value [...]
Navigating COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Board Games
There is a class of board games called “cooperative”, or “co-op” for short. In a co-op game, all [...]
Economics and Healthcare
When making important business decisions it is critical to evaluate them in economic terms, oftentimes boiled down to [...]
Minimum Savings Rates in Shared Savings Arrangements
IntroductionIt is a hot afternoon in late summer. Representatives from the managed care team at GreatCare Health Systems [...]