Description: The Triple Aim is a vision to improve the health of populations, create a better quality of life, and reduce per capita spending for the benefit of communities.(http://www.ihi.org/Topics/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx) While much public attention on wellness has focused on topics such as obesity and smoking, it would be beneficial if greater emphasis was placed on raising the bar of oral health. The mouth plays an important role in overall health and wellness. Routine oral care helps prevent dental problems and appears to positively affect chronic conditions before they develop into complex, more expensive ones. This purpose of this session is to increase awareness of the importance of oral health, the consequences of poor oral health, and the link with socioeconomic characteristics. This session will explore and highlight studies completed in this space by both researchers and payers. Actuaries interested in learning more about the impact of oral health and overall health, relevant interventions that have been undertaken, areas for potential financial savings, and issues relating to public policy applicable to oral health would benefit from attending this session.

Description: Through this Call for Essays, the SOA seeks to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisers, employers and other stakeholders.

Description: Future Farmers of America was the dream of a suburban boy in Wisconsin. John Clay loved the idea of driving tractors, working with equipment, and taking care of the land. Life took him in the direction to become an elementary school teacher, and he was able to combine his passions for education and farming by providing a lawn service that went well beyond your basic lawn care. This article shares a heart-warming story of how a gracious individual can positively affect a community

Description: This paper will examine why CSR defunding produces pricing uncertainty and how regulators can alleviate these risks when insurers price 2020 premiums.

Description: A high level summary of the basics of Medicare Part D settlements - what they are, and the impact they have on plan sponsors' final financial results. Intended for an audience with limited familiarity with Medicare Part D.

Description: Part II of a two-part series discussing individual market evolution from before the ACA through President Trump's first term.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: Feature article provides a glimpse into recent changes to various standards of care owed to customers that will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the products and services offered by many financial institutions.

Description: Morbidity improvement has been a hot topic in the LTC market in the past year. This session will provide an update of studies performed in the industry to review historical data for morbidity improvement and considerations that actuaries should take when determining what level of morbidity improvement to include in their best estimate assumptions.

Description: Large claims have always been a major source of volatility in health care claims experience. In this session, the presenters will discuss techniques for analyzing large claims, predicting large claims and measuring the associated risk. The presenters will also discuss the early results of the SOA 5/50 research project which will examine the 5% of the population that accounts for 50% of the health care costs.