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SOA Exam FAM Sample Question 14

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A health plan implements an incentive to physicians to control hospitalization under which the physicians will be paid a bonus B equal to c times the amount by which total hospital claims are under 400 (0 \le c \le 1).

The effect the incentive plan will have on underlying hospital claims is modeled by assuming that the new total hospital claims will follow a Pareto distribution with \alpha = 2 and \theta = 300.

E(B) = 100

Calculate c.

  • A) 0.44
  • B) 0.48
  • C) 0.52
  • D) 0.56
  • E) 0.60

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