Session: Were the New ACA Enrollees Different?
Speaker: Rebecca Owen, FSA, MAAA

This session will be an examination of pharmaceutical utilization in one state’s exchange population.
It will summarize findings from an analysis of pharmaceutical utilization patterns in an ACA population and compare it to other recently published reports on comparative use and health status of the ACA expansion populations.

Rebecca Owen is the Health Research Actuary at the Society of Actuaries, specializing in health topics. She is involved in coordinating research as well as working on research projects sponsored by the society. She has been on the staff for one and a half years. Prior to coming to the Society, she worked in industry with a focus on actuarial analytics for both medical and pharmaceutical products. She has worked with commercial, individual, Medicare and Medicaid populations, but is particularly interested in the structure, payment methods and population management of optimal delivery systems for Medicaid members.