Predictive Modeling Bulletin             |           October 5, 2010             |           Volume Two Issue Ten
Complimentary from the publishers of Predictive Modeling News      www.PredictiveModelingNews.com

Medicare's New Order for Claims: First Weigh, Then Pay
McClatchy Newspapers, October 1, 2010 

CMS Required to Implement Anti-Fraud Software with "Predictive Modeling" By Next Year
Becker's ASC Review, October 1, 2010 

Medicare To Adopt New Billing System Intended To Reduce Fraud Cases
California Healthline, September 30, 2010 
 
Analytical Breakthroughs Ease Health Care Reform
Business Wire, September 27, 2010 
 
Is Predictive Analytics on the Horizon?
Insurance Networking News, September 21, 2010 
 
Predictive Modeling Helps Commercial Insurers Hold Prices
Insurance Journal, September 20, 2010 
 

In the October 2010 issue of Predictive Modeling News, you'll find articles including:

• Analytics for Intelligent Decision Making in Collaborative Care Delivery by Jianying Hu, Shahram Ebadollahi, Martin Kohn, Todd Christiansen, Chalapathy Neti, and Robert Merkel

• Model-Based Research Focuses on Effect of More Activity on Colon Cancer Incidence

• Helping Medicare Part D Plans with Advanced Risk-Adjustment Tools by Ksenia Draaghtel ASA MAAA, Associate Actuary, and Diane Laurent, Managing Director, Advanced Risk Technologies, Milliman Inc.

• Thought Leaders Corner: “How can predictive analytics initiatives best overcome the obstacles and challenges resulting from working with separate, unconnected sources such as claims, lab, pharmacy and demographics in settings other than integrated healthcare systems?”

• Industry News with briefs regarding Qforma, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Reed Group, Accelrys, Champions Biotechnology, and Cephalon

• Data Snapshots...with Ian Duncan, FSA FIA FCIA MAAA, President, Solucia Consulting, a SCIOinspire Company

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