Thomas Leonard Smith
2 Papers
34 Citations
Thomas Leonard Smith is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hedge (finance) & Derivative (finance). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications.
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Patent
Method of creating and utilizing healthcare related commodoties
Thomas Leonard Smith,Marshall Howard Hudes,James Mark Staba +2 more
- 30 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed tangible financial instruments that allow entities to effectively and efficiently hedge the highly volatile fluctuations associated with predicting healthcare costs and revenues by converting healthcare services into commodities and constructing a financial derivative and a security with an underlying value based on the commodity.
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Patent
System and method for managing healthcare costs
Thomas Leonard Smith,Marshall Howard Hudes,James Mark Slaba +2 more
- 08 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for creating a financial index related to healthcare costs is presented, which can be used to hedge against unexpected fluctuations of healthcare costs, and a financial derivative instrument can be created from the index.
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