Announcement: SOA releases passing candidate numbers for February 2025 Exam FM.
The SOA Strategic Research Programs emphasize the skillset and thought leadership of actuaries, and help provide insights to members, stakeholders, and the public on socially relevant topics.
The SOA’s Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program focuses on the forces that shape health care cost, use and changes over time. Explore what drives health care costs, including medical and pharmacy use, social factors, and demographics. Topics include trends with health care costs, public health, preventive medicine, population health, the impacts of regulatory and legislative changes, and the impact of new medical technologies and pharmaceuticals.
Learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.
Learn more about the concept of total risk analysis, which is designed to answer key questions as decisions are made.
Peterson Health Technology Assessments and Actuarial Methods
Discover how cutting-edge evaluation techniques can revolutionize decision-making for payers, providers, and consumers in the digital health landscape.
Reimagining Pharmacy Financing
Learn more about a new value-based pharmacy financing methodology.
How does where you live impact your health?
This question is considered through the lens of social determinants of health.
Learn more about long-run medical cost trends.
This report provides professionals working with risk, data and analytics considerations and frameworks related to the use of determinants of health (DOH).
Learn more about setting/evaluating rates for Medicaid Managed Care programs to develop the underwriting margin component of the capitation rates.
