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HealthCheck, Summer 2026
Broadening the Focus: A New Framework for Evaluating Health Care Programs
Health Equity Committee Chairperson Becky Sheppard offered insight on the Health Practice Council’s Broadening the Focus initiative.
Sheppard
Coming out of the...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2026
Academy Holds Spring Policy Summit, Annual Hill Visits
Health volunteers & staff at HHS for the CCIIO meeting
The Academy held its inaugural Spring Policy Summit in Washington on March 9, followed by the annual “Hill visits” in which...
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HealthCheck, Fall/Winter 2025
Leadership Summit & Governance Transition
Health VP Annette James Outlines Key HPC Priorities
James (third from right) in the VP panel
In a panel discussion moderated by incoming Academy President Tricia Matson at the 60th anniversary...
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HealthCheck, Summer 2025
Q&A-Resource Guide Offers Academy's Health Expertise
Uccello
A new Health Practice Council (HPC) suite of publications-Health Insurance Market Dynamics: A Resource Guide-offers insight on how aspects of health insurance markets influence...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2025
Academy Conducts ‘Hill Visits' With Federal Lawmakers in Washington
Health VP Annette James (center left) & Harindra Sebastian lead HPC volunteers on Capitol Hill
The Health Practice Council (HPC) joined other Academy practice councils...
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HealthCheck, Winter 2025
Issue Brief, Webinar Examine State of LTC Insurance
A new Long-Term Care (LTC) Committee issue brief highlights the current state of long-term care insurance (LTCI). It focuses on policy design, the management of legacy blocks of...
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HealthCheck, Fall 2024
Envision Tomorrow
Session Looks at Broadening the Focus on Health Outcomes
Panelists Address Disparities, Health Equity Issues
Session presenters (L-R) Sheppard, Gandotra, Hendricks-Sturrup, Singleton, and Thompson
An Envision Tomorrow...
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HealthCheck, Summer 2024
A Deep-Dive Into the 2024 Medicare Trustees Report
SkoogThe annual Medicare Trustees Report released this spring showed the projected long-range financial condition of the Medicare's hospital insurance (HI) trust fund improved since last year due...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2024
Q&A-HPC Behavioral Task Force
KleverThe Health Practice Council's (HPC) Behavioral Health Task Force, formed last year, is looking at a variety of issues for 2024. Topics the group is exploring include the current state of behavioral health...
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Health Check, Fall 2023
Symposium Brings Together Stakeholders to Discuss Strategies to Advance Health Equity
At its inaugural Health Equity Symposium, the Academy brought together actuaries, health plan experts, and other thought leaders to collaborate on how to...
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HealthCheck, Summer 2023
Highlights From HealthCheck
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Q&A-What's Driving Premiums for 2024?
BohlAs it does annually, the Academy's...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2023
Highlights From HealthCheck
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Academy Offers Actuarial Perspective on Medicare Trustees Report
Following the release of...
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HealthCheck, Winter 2023
Q&A-Cost-Sharing Reductions
Last September, the Health Practice Council's Individual and Small Group Markets Committee and the Risk Sharing Subcommittee submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Center...
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HealthCheck, Summer/Fall 2022
Q&A-Issue Brief Looks at Risk Assessment, Adjustment viz. Health Equity
Uccello
The Health Equity Committee released an issue brief, Health Risk Assessment and Risk Adjustment in the Context of Health Equity, which describes the...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2022
HPC Holds Annual ‘Hill Visits' With Federal Health Policy Stakeholders
Schmitz
Health Practice Council (HPC) volunteers and Academy staff virtually visited the offices of federal policymakers and regulators March 10-11 during their annual...
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HealthCheck, Fall/Winter 2021
HEWG Issues Request for Information
Comments Due Jan. 14
The Health Equity Work Group (HEWG) issued a request for information (RFI) to solicit input for its work assessing whether and how health actuarial practices and methods affect health...
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HealthCheck, Summer 2021
Health Equity Update-HEWG Making Progress in Discussion Briefs
Lin
Novak
Since the Health Practice Council's (HPC) Health Equity Work Group (HEWG) was May webinar in which work group members looked at key issues involving health...
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HealthCheck, Spring 2021
Spring 2021VOL 12 | NO 2
HPC Conducts Virtual ‘Hill Visits’ With Federal Lawmakers, Policymakers
SchmitzHealth Practice Council (HPC) volunteers and Academy staff virtually visited the offices of federal policymakers...
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HealthCheck, Winter 2021
Winter 2021VOL 12 | NO 1
Q&A—Health Issues in the New Year
UccelloWith the new year we have a new administration and Congress in Washington, D.C.— which means different prospects for legislative and...
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HealthCheck, Fall 2020
Fall 2020VOL 11 | NO 3
Q&A—The Academy’s New Health Equity Work Group
JamesThe Academy’s Health Practice Council recently created the Health Equity Work Group. The formation of this work group was prompted by...