Health Research

• Health Literature Reviews
• Health Section Sponsored Research
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• Research Projects
• Linking Quality and Cost: An Analysis of the Hospital Quality Information Initiatives Measures
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• Troubled Health Care System
• The practice area initiated a research project, cosponsored by the Health Section, to help provide strategic direction for the future involvement of actuaries in the current U.S. health care reform debate.
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• Projected Cost Analysis of Potential Medicare Pharmacy Plan Designs (Research Section)
• What is the cost of providing a prescription drug benefit plan for Medicare enrollees? The following research report: Projected Cost Analysis of Potential Medicare Pharmacy Plan Designs, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section and Health Practice Area, explores this important and pressing issue.
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• Study: Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Research Section)
• As a result of the increasing interest in alternative and integrative treatments (CAM) as seen in both the scientific community and popular media, a Project Oversight Group was formed to design and oversee a study with the goal of analyzing health care claim data on these treatments
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• Resources
• Material Presented at Health Section Professional Community Event during 2007 SOA Annual Meeting
• Medical Care Journal Request for Papers
• The chronic disease burden–An analysis of health risks and health care usage
• An analysis of health risk and health care usage–The UK experience