Description: Modeling teams are getting larger to deal with more complex models and to support more enhancement requests from business and actuarial teams. Actuarial modeling teams can adapt tools and techniques used in the broader IT industry to be more efficient, handle large number of requests while maintaining their quality of work. Explore DevOps tools to track requests, progress made, work assignment and version control systems. See Azure DevOps in action as presenters use it as an illustrative tool to showcase these activities and how they can be beneficial to an actuarial modeling team (regardless of their preferred actuarial modeling system).

Description: This interactive webcast is designed for actuaries at various levels to learn how to improve their communication skills by actively participating via polling and open forums. At the conclusion of this webcast, attendees will: • Understand the key pillars of effective communication • Be better able to communicate in a clear, compelling way • Understand how to simplify their language to reach diverse audiences.

Description: Award-winning keynote speaker Rachel Sheerin will discuss burnout, harnessing her signature blend of positive energy and authentic engagement. With her viral TEDx Talk on burnout, Rachel delivers audiences from fatigued to FIRED UP with truth and humor.

Description: Familiarize yourself with Precision Medicine Diagnostics and Prescription Digital Therapeutics. The innovation in these markets has the potential to improve clinical outcomes across a range of mental health and physical conditions. Market growth will be associated with potentially important PMPM cost impacts as utilization increases and benefit designs evolve. Experience with existing and new technologies will enable a better understanding of possible financial efficiencies related to their use. One category of Precision Medicine Diagnostics includes genetic diagnostics, which are analyses of DNA and genetic material. The resulting genetic insights are to predict disease or enhance response to treatment. The U.S. market is expected to grow from about $5 billion to approximately $8 billion in 2025. Prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) are software-based interventions intended to prevent, manage or treat disease. PDTs are prescribed by physicians alongside prescription drugs, supported by clinical data, and regulated by the Food & Drug Administration. PDTs enable collection of real-world data for use by prescribing clinicians and other health care stakeholders. To date, the FDA has authorized just nine PDTs, but the annual global growth is expected to grow from about 19 percent to 26 percent, resulting in an estimated $10 billion market in 2025. After the session, you will be able to describe how the two markets are defined and articulate the current and projected market sizes. You will also be encouraged to increase attention to the forecasting challenges that these developing areas pose and incorporate respective considerations into financial modeling.

Description: As more gene and cell therapies enter the market at increasingly higher price points, they are ushering in a new era of medicine for rare diseases. Unlike most traditional therapies, gene and cell therapies typically have a short or one-time treatment administration and are anticipated to provide long-term clinical benefits. Actuaries must be prepared to assess, manage, and/or mitigate the risks associated with these therapies. This session includes three different perspectives—a regional plan, a stop loss/reinsurance carrier, and a health care consultant.

Description: Burnout is impacting the business world now, and even prior to the pandemic. Burnout is a state in which motivation declines markedly, leading to stress, increased use of sick leave, potential illness and lowered work performance. To be effective people leaders, or to simply manage one’s own situation, it is important to gain insight into the symptoms of burnout, the causes, prevention and how to effectively deal with it. By attending this session, you will gain understanding of employee burnout, how to help yourself and your team members effectively deal with it, and how to refresh.

Description: There exists profound health and access disparities among people from different demographics and socioeconomic backgrounds. Health equity is now a central policy directive for the U.S. government and CMS. Speakers representing policy, health care delivery and actuarial spaces will help you discover what health equity policy directions may look like, the challenges health care providers are facing and how actuaries can contribute to the effort in bridging the health equity divides.

Description: In this video Dale Hall, Managing Director of Research at the Society of Actuaries Research Institute, introduces a report titled “Guide to Domestic & International Paid Family and Medical Leave Programs.” Motivated by the increasing interest in these programs, especially post-COVID 19, the report compares U.S. and international paid family and medical leave initiatives. Key findings include differences in benefit generosity and periods for maternity and paternity leave, as well as domestic violence leave. Contributors: Dale Hall FSA, MAAA, CFA, CERA , Rose Northon, STeven Siegel ASA MAAA, Jon Forster ASA MAAA

Description: In this video Scott Allen, FSA, MAAA discusses the Medicare Advantage Part C bid template. The template helps Medicare Advantage plans estimate costs and premiums, comparing their bids to CMS benchmarks. It’s a complex process involving worksheets that project costs, calculate revenue requirements, and determine rebates, ultimately influencing the plan’s benefits, premiums, and competitiveness in the market. Contributors: Scott Allen, FSA, MAAA, Eric Milner, ASA, MAAA, Danica Turner, FSA, MAAA, Jon Forster ASA, MAAA

Description: Learn about key topics affecting actuaries working in the dental insurance space! The session will include valuable information for health actuaries looking to better understand how dental fits into Medicaid, Medicare, commercial, and ACA markets.