Kevin Wolf will go behind and beyond the article that he wrote for Contingencies magazine in Jul/Aug 2018 entitled, A Long Stroll through Avoca Cemetery: An actuarial study … and a few meditations and meanderings. He’ll discuss the publication process, problems he had, research he did then and since, his results, and the usefulness of such results.
Kevin Wolf has over 35 years’ experience in the health care field. His specialty is prescription drug modeling. He has done minimum value actuarial attestation under the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010, helped clients receive the retiree drug subsidy (RDS) under the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, and done state rate filing for pharmacy capitations. He formed his own consulting firm, Kevin Wolf & Associates, LLC in 2012. He was a partner at Larimer & Wolf Consulting Actuaries from 2007 to 2012. From 1979 to 2007 he worked for health insurance companies (including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, and CNA in Chicago) and consulting firms (including Bob Gold & Associates and Ernst & Young).