Healthcare Town Hall

Milliman Research

2010 Milliman Medical Index (PDF)

Implementing Parity: The Safe Harbor for Outpatient Benefits (PDF)

Nuts and Bolts of ACO Financial and Operational Success: Calculating and Managing to Actuarial Utilization Targets (PDF)

Should Your State Establish a Health Insurance Exchange? (PDF)

Controlling Healthcare Costs the Old, New Way (PDF)

Risk Adjustment: Health Calculus for the Reform Environment (PDF)

Why Hospital Cost Shifting Is No Longer a Viable Strategy (PDF)

Want to Manage Employer Healthcare Costs? It Starts With Managing Utilization

Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: Opportunities for Better Management (PDF)

National Healthcare Reform: Strategic Considerations for Large Employers (PDF)

Improved Management Can Help Reduce the Economic Burden of Type 2 Diabetes: A 20-year Actuarial Projection (PDF)

Implementing Parity: Investing in Behavioral Health (PDF)

Guidance Issued on Extending Health Plan Coverage to Employees' Adult Children (PDF)

Rating and Underwriting Under the New Healthcare Reform Law (PDF)

Healthcare Reform and Medicare Part D (PDF)

Healthcare Reform and Pharmacy Benefits (PDF)

The Need for Better Hypertension Control: Addressing Gaps in Care With the Medical Home Model (PDF)

How Hospitals Can Successfully Implement Evidence-based Guidelines (PDF)

Healthcare Cost: Manage the Causes, Not the Effect (PDF)

High Value for Hospital Care: High Value for All? (PDF)

Effective Contracting with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PDF)

The Difficulty of Legislating Premium Rate Increases (PDF)

Building an Accountable Care Information System (PDF)

Combo LTC Annuities: Here They Come

ICD-10: Industry Perceptions and Readiness (PDF)

Consequences of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Costs of a Baby Boomer Epidemic of Liver Disease (PDF)

Medicare Part D: Taking Another Look at Employer Group Waiver Plans for Tax-exempt Plan Sponsors (PDF)

Adverse Selection and the CLASS Act (PDF)

Adverse Selection and the Individual Mandate (PDF)

No Room to Stand (PDF)

"Young Invincible" Provision Points to Lingering Questions About Cost and Sustainability (PDF)

Retooling Medical Professional Liability (PDF)

Experience Under the Healthy Indiana Plan: The Short-term Cost Challenges of Expanding Coverage to the Uninsured (PDF)

Regional Data Exchanges Unlock the Potential of Electronic Health Records (PDF)

The Convergence of Quality and Efficiency and the Role of Information Technology in Healthcare Reform (PDF)

Comprehending the Compromise: Key Considerations in Understanding the "Co-op" as an Alternative to the "Public Plan"

Healthcare Reform: Large Employer Impact (PDF)

Understanding Healthcare Plan Costs and Complexities

Three Keys to Getting Healthcare Reform Right

Transforming Healthcare: Identifying the Failures and Unlocking the Potential of Our Current System

Preparing for Parity: Investing in Mental Health (PDF)

Imagining 16% to 12%: A Vision for Cost Efficiency, Improving Healthcare Quality, and Covering the Uninsured (PDF)

Hidden Health Tax (PDF)

Hospital and Physician Cost Shift (PDF)

Milliman's Consumer-driven Impact Study (PDF)

The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Medicare Part D (PDF)

PBM Transparency Could Be Inevitable

Success of $4 Generic Programs Highlights Potential Consumerism (PDF)

The Impact of AWP Litigation on Your PBM Contract (PDF)

Ten Critical Factors for Health Plan Success in Implementing ICD-10 (PDF)

ICD-10 Savings: Who Will Be the Winners? (PDF)

Healthcare Data Pooling: Coming Soon to a Community Near You? (PDF)

Michelle's Law: New Mandate on Dependent Student Eligibility (PDF)

Market-based Insurance Design: A New Approach to Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve (PDF)

2009 Milliman Medical Index (PDF)

Value-based Insurance Design (VBID): Questions Adopters Should Ask (PDF)

Eight Important Questions About SCHIP

The Rise and Risks of Medical Tourism

Considering Reimbursement for Cancer Preventive Agents (PDF)

The Impact of Guaranteed Issue and Community Rating Reforms on Individual Insurance Markets (PDF)

Legislation and Government Programs

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (PDF)

Senate Healthcare Reform Bill (PDF)

House Healthcare Reform Bill

Chairman's Mark: America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 (PDF)

The Obama-Biden Health Plan (PDF)

Sen. Max Baucus' White Paper on Health Reform (PDF)

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

Healthcare Reform Resources

American Medical Association (AMA): How the Passage of Federal Health System Reform Legislation Impacts Your Practice

America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP): Health Care Reform Bill Insurance Market Provisions Timeline (PDF)

Kaiser Family Foundation: Health Reform Implementation Timeline

Kaiser Family Foundation: Summary of New Health Reform Law

More Kaiser Family Foundation healthcare resources

PhRMA Statement on Health Care Reform

Statement from American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown on House Passage of Senate Health Care Reform Legislation

Other Resources

Age Rating Under Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Household Financial Burdens (PDF)

Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument (PDF)

Bureau of Labor Statistics Guide to the Health Care Industry

California Legislative Analyst's Office Report: A State Policy Approach: Promoting Health Information Technology in California

The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: Implications for States (PDF)

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Health Economics, Policy and Law: Effect of the Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Electronic Health Record on Productivity in the Veterans Health Administration

Health Care Reform and American Federalism: The Next Inter-Governmental Partnership (PDF)

Institute of Medicine: Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation

National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Healthcare

Multimedia

Dartmouth Atlas Regional Comparisons

The Health Care Status Quo

Kaiser Family Foundation Health Reform Subsidy Calculator

Regional Differences in Costs and Care

Congressional Budget Office Reports

H.R. 4872, Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Final Health Care Legislation)

Analysis of Senate Healthcare Reform Bill (PDF)

Analysis of House Healthcare Reform Bill (PDF)

Health Care

Key Issues in Analyzing Health Insurance Proposals

Behavioral Economics: Lessons from Retirement Research for Health Care and Beyond

Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology

The Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Health Care

Increasing the Value of Federal Spending on Health Care

The Long-Term Budget Outlook and Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs

Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Health Care

Increasing Transparency in the Pricing of Health Care Services and Pharmaceuticals

Health Costs and Health Information Technology