Description: This article looks at pharmacy benefit management and the use of data, reviews standard pharmacoeconomic analysis methods, and discusses points for formulary decision making and what is known about the process. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: Essay stating accessibility, affordability and efficiency are the key to success in the future of healthcare.

Description: Actuaries should understand the economic considerations involved in the formulary drug decision-making process, and the presence of actuarial input in the process could improve it, especially by tying it to overall decision making for the health plan. From Prescription Drugs Monograph, M-HB04-1.

Description: This research report, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries' Health Section, measures the annual frequency of medical errors in the United States and the total measurable cost to the United States economy of these errors.

Description: The current design of group Long-Term Care LTC products does not optimally serve employers and employees, which is limiting growth in the employer market. Current employer LTC products fail to deliver in one very important way: too few employees participate in the coverage.

Description: Full version of Health Watch News, Issue No. 53, September 2006.

Description: Milliman performed an analysis of 894 uses of the checking service on individual medical health insurance applications to gain a better understanding of its protective value. From Health Watch Newsletter, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: Research report measuring the annual frequency of medical errors in the United States and the total measurable cost to the United States economy of these errors.

Description: Full version Long-Term Care Newsletter, March 2006, Issue No. 17.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, Issue No. 49, March 2005.