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MyActuary.AI The Journey of Democratizing Actuarial Knowledge Through AI
The Journey of Democratizing Actuarial Knowledge Through AI -
The Latest Trends in Actuarial Tech and Automation: A Snapshot of the Landscape Today and Hypotheses for the Future
This article provides a snapshot of the landscape of actuarial transformation today and hypotheses for the future. -
With A Little Help from My Friends
This article describes the importance of networking. It explains the strengths and weaknesses of strong and weak network links. It then it explains why becoming a friend of the section is the easiest and least commital way to network among actuarial peers. -
Quantum Actuary：Reshaping Insurance Cognition
This article will mainly explore the quantum characteristics in some insurance phenomena. By using the quantum theory, this article will aim to revolutionize traditional insurance thinking, reshape the insurance cognition, and explore the new paths for modern actuarial science. -
Comparison of Risk Adjustment Programs—California Medicaid Managed Care Versus CMS Medicare Advantage, PART II
Risk Adjustment (RA) is a key component for CMS Medicare Advantage program and California Medicaid Managed Care program. While both RA programs follow generally accepted basic principles, their underlying methodologies and assumptions are quite different. Due to recent events, such as COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Medicaid redetermination delay and restart, it adds complexity to Risk Adjustment. This is a hot topic in the industry and has significant impact to health plans. Keeping current with Risk Adjustment program changes and understanding the commonalities and differences of these two government Risk Adjustment programs is important to our health actuaries. This article compares and contracts these two risk adjustment programs’ methodology and assumptions as well as special considerations due to serving different populations. This is Part II of the two articles on this topic. -
Comparison of Risk Adjustment Programs—California Medicaid Managed Care Versus CMS Medicare Advantage, PART I
Risk Adjustment (RA) is a key component for CMS Medicare Advantage program and California Medicaid Managed Care program. While both RA programs follow generally accepted basic principles, their underlying methodologies and assumptions are quite different. Recent events, such as COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Medicaid redetermination delay and restart, have added complexity to Risk Adjustment. This is a hot topic in the industry and has significant impact to health plans. Keeping current with Risk Adjustment program changes and understanding the commonalities and differences of these two government Risk Adjustment programs is important to our health actuaries. This article compares and contrasts these two risk adjustment programs’ methodology and assumptions as well as special considerations due to serving different populations. -
Emerging Topics Community Update
The article contains a description of the Emerging Topics Community. The focus of the article is what is a community, what makes the Emerging Topics Community special, and benefits of the Community. Included after the discussion on the community are ways to get involved and be a part of the community. -
Abandon the Spreadsheet and Go Digital
Lin Fangcheng argues that it is easy to digitalize by setting up new departments, but the real battle is to digitalize the incumbent departments that are predominantly spreadsheet-users. In order to reap the full potential of digitalization, we must abandon the spreadsheet and go digital. He discusses the reasons why the spreadsheet, hindered by its inherent design, has become a bottleneck for higher efficiency, and how to adopt low-code digital technology in a “together” mode. He further demonstrates that digitalization lays a solid foundation for artificial intelligence. -
Predictive Analytics Hack-a-Thon 2022
Describes the Predictive Analytics Hack-a-Thon held in 2022 and its outcomes. -
An Exploration of the Quantum Actuary
Quantum theory is one of the significant concept in modern physics. Many phenomena in nature and society also show the characteristics of "quantization", of course including the insurance market. Probability is the cornerstone in the actuarial calculation while the quantum mechanics could give different perspectives on the probability. The paper proposes a new approach to explore the quantum application to the insurance market by solving the partial differential equation of the Schrödinger equation with some simple Hamiltonian such as infinite square potential well, potential barrier penetration and harmonic oscillator which may be helpful for the development of quantum actuarial.
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