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So How Would You Fix Health Care Grandpa?
My grandkids periodically ask me about my work. They understand that I am a heath care consultant and have worked in the health care world for my entire career. The have overheard many [...]
Risk-Based Capital Considerations for Self-Funded Plans
Two of the main reasons why businesses choose to self-fund their employee health care benefits are (1) to have more flexibility of the plan administration, and (2) to reduce costs. Self-insuring will guarantee cost [...]
Streamline Your Healthcare Analytics by Embedding Benchmarking
Too often meaningless and unnecessarily complex healthcare analysis is prepared and presented to leadership without explaining what it means or answering the key question “what do I do with this?” Embedding a simple benchmarking [...]
ACA Premium Changes: We Need a New Measuring Stick
Guilty!!! I wrote the lead article in the February edition of the Society of Actuaries Social Insurance and Public Finance Section newsletter In The Public Interest. I highlighted that 2019 individual market premiums declined [...]
Health Care Affordability Index: 2019
Overview The American health care industry is a leviathan. Health care has swelled to dominate 18% of national GDP, and health care spending is expected to outpace overall economic [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Model Validation
Models inform business decisions by using a variety of techniques to explain relationships among variables, entities, or events. In addition to actuaries, other stakeholders in the healthcare industry such as hospitals, providers, and insurance [...]