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  • A Provider’s Primer for Shared Savings Arrangements

    January 25, 2022

    Shared savings arrangements have increased in popularity as healthcare shifts towards value-based care. In its most basic form, the total healthcare costs of members associated (i.e., or those attributed)...

  • Value-Based Care’s Impact on Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions

    January 5, 2022

    Provider reimbursement models are evolving as the healthcare system attempts to combat rapidly rising healthcare costs. A major development has been the push towards value-based care (VBC). Value-based payment

  • COVID Christmas Gifts

    December 27, 2021

    As we sit here in December 2021 COVID is still active and cases appear to be climbing in certain pockets of the United States. In early 2020, when the pandemic began, few of us ever thought that we would be dealing with...

  • Impressions of the ACA: The 1st Year of the 2nd Decade

    December 17, 2021

    I cannot help myself. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last year, I wrote about 30 influential voices in the ACA’s first decade. At the end, I surmised the article probably deserved a reprisal...

  • Targeting Clarity Through Transparency

    September 24, 2021

    Over the years much has been said about the issue of increasing costs of healthcare, its causes, and solutions to address it. In terms of solutions, on one side of the spectrum is the constant drum of a government takeover...

  • Geographic Utilization Disparities and Financial Impacts

    September 15, 2021

    It seems natural to assume that the scientific underpinning of medicine implies a formulaic treatment for any given combination of presenting symptoms. However, this assertion ignores the artistic nature of care management...

  • Some Thoughts on Self-Funded Health Insurance in a (Post) Covid World

    September 2, 2021

    Today we are nearing the fourth quarter of 2021 and the world has been augmented in major ways since the pandemic began nearly 18 months ago. Not long-ago masks were hardly seen outside of the hospital...

  • Land of the Free

    June 11, 2021

    Health care is expensive in the United States. If you have paid attention to the Society of Actuaries Health Section since 2018, you are familiar with Initiative 18/11. The catchy title derives from the fact that health care spending is...

  • An Actuarial Guide to Medicare Direct Contracting

    May 26, 2021

    On April 1, 2021, the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model began its first performance year. Effective through 2026, the CMS GPDC Model introduces risk sharing arrangements with the goal of reducing...

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