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.
Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research
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.
Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research
Interpretable Machine Learning Methods
Learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.
Driving Decisions Using the 5/50 Research
Learn more about the concept of total risk analysis, which is designed to answer key questions as decisions are made.
Impactful Research

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.
Getzen Model Update for 2025 - 2035+
Learn more about long-run medical cost trends.
Social, Physical and Cultural Determinants of Health
This report provides professionals working with risk, data and analytics considerations and frameworks related to the use of determinants of health (DOH).
Medicaid Managed Care Underwriting Margin Model
Learn more about setting/evaluating rates for Medicaid Managed Care programs to develop the underwriting margin component of the capitation rates.