Description: The rules governing the framework of Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces continue to be refined at the state and federal level. The catalyst for such changes has been a desire to improve markets, which has been primarily informed by data and experience in the ACA's first decade. This session will feature a panel of consulting actuaries, a state policy advisor who has influenced ACA legislation, and an attorney deeply involved in ACA risk adjustment litigation. Discussion will include new federal proposals, efforts to strengthen enforcement of rating compliance, new actuarial insights from public data, and the anticipated future implications for ACA markets. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Understand what precipitated risk adjustment lawsuits and how proposed federal rules address these concerns. • Identify how state regulators are addressing premium misalignment between metal levels and shaping local policies. • Develop new insights on publicly available data. • Understand the implications these policy changes will have on the future of pricing health insurance benefits, consumer value and enrollment distributions in ACA marketplaces. • Understand the primary factors leading to ACA market success.

Description: Competition for talent is at an all-time high and the “Great Reshuffle” continues to permeate the industry, redefining the employee/employer relationship and making it vital for actuarial leaders to focus on retaining individuals at all professional levels. At the same time, hybrid and fully remote environments are transforming how managers approach employee engagement and requiring them to be more intentional in building a sense of connection with their teams. Savvy managers are identifying high-potential employees, facilitating stay interviews to uncover unique motivators, and creating individualized retention plans. Learn how leaders are adapting traditional retention tactics and rethinking strategies to engage employees in the evolving environment. Gain first-hand insight into building tailored retention and development plans that align with an individual’s values, personal priorities and career aspirations, ultimately increasing employee engagement and loyalty.By attending the session, you will:•Explore how the challenging recruiting environment and the “Great Reshuffle” have shifted the traditional employer/employee relationship and what it means for managers.•Identify high-potential actuaries and recognize their individual contribution levels.•Discover tools for uncovering the values, needs and career aspirations of individual team members.•Recognize how to tailor retention and development plans for individual employees to increase engagement and productivity.

Description: Internal audit (IA) projects typically focus on evaluating the risks and operational effectiveness of a company’s technological, regulatory/compliance, and/or financial processes and procedures. Because LDTI and IFRS 17 compliance will require extensive rewiring of existing and possibly the implementation of new processes and procedures to comply with the new accounting requirements, IA will be critical in conducting the initial risk assessment of these changes, monitoring of the process changeover, and conducting a post-implementation validation after conversion. Explore many specific areas that will be impacted, highlight those aspects likely to be under the IA magnifying glass, and find out how you can best prepare your IA teams to understand the changes and expedite the testing timeframes of their audits. By attending the session, you will be able to: • Understand general IA testing approach and framework. • Identify and address the key processes and procedures likely to be impacted by accounting change. • Build a communication plan that tailors the level of detail of documentation to the intended audience. (e.g., Leadership and BOD) • Document decisions made and implemented with IA in mind.

Description: The time has arrived for ASU 2018-12, otherwise known as Long-Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI). For health insurance products, the ASU will require considerable efforts to make the necessary changes to valuation systems, procedures, assumptions, and/or methodologies in order to be in compliance. This session is designed to cover LDTI implications specific to carriers of long-term care and supplemental health products, including changes to how attained age rated products will be approached, allocating and discounting the claim liability (IBNR), and how the treatment of Profits Followed by Losses (PFBL) will evolve under LDTI. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Understand LDTI’s key impacts on long-duration health insurance products. • Recognize the treatment of attained age rated products under LDTI. • Comprehend the requirements of allocating the claim liability to cohorts. • Grasp the requirements pertaining to the discounting of the claim liability. • Understand how PFBL will evolve under the new standard.

Description: It’s the first full day of activities at the SOA 2022 Health Meeting! Enjoy reuniting with the health actuarial community and prepare to gain insight from thought-provoking sessions. Start your day off right by grabbing some delicious breakfast treats and join us for the opening panel session. SOA Strategic Plan: President’s Remarks SOA President Jennifer Gillespie, FSA, MAAA, will share perspectives on the 2022-2024 Strategic Plan, from education developments and societal purpose to community engagement. Pharma Insights: Opening Panel Session Join us for a special panel with experts sharing their perspectives on pharmaceutical industry trends and developments, including on patents and biosimilars, economics and gene therapies. Panelists:Gabriela Dieguez, FSA, MAAA, Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman Drew Kirchner, FSA, Head of Pharmacy Economics for Integrated Medical, Cigna Katie Martin, CEO, Health Care Cost InstituteKerri Miller, National Account Executive, Blueprint MedicinesSusan Winckler, CEO, Reagan-Udall Foundation for Food and Drug Administration Moderator: Greg Warren, FSA, FCA, MAAA, Partner & Consulting Actuary, Axene Health Partners Breakfast is available for all meeting attendees as part of the registration fee. If you plan to attend, please register in advance.

Description: The frequent use and complexity of today's actuarial projection models has increased the importance of having efficient models. Model optimization can reduce both cloud costs and overall end-to-end clock times, thereby allowing companies to do more with less such as reducing close times, increasing controls, enhancing analysis, doing more complicated calculations, and/or improving employee workloads during the close. From design and data to execution and audit, come explore techniques that can be applied throughout the actuarial modeling process to optimize actuarial models for improved run-time, accuracy, and reliability. There will be a focus on techniques that don't rely on model compression. Topics covered include model design pitfalls, data handling, improving convergence on asset-liability projections, strategies for interacting with the cloud, and other tips for optimizing actuarial models.

Description: All you wanted to know about InsurTech but were too afraid to ask! This one-day event will feature four webcasts that will unlock and enhance the world of InsurTech. By attending this webs series, you will find answers on what InsurTech is about and what it’s trying to solve. Dive deeper into the successes of InsurTech and find out how to join this established organization. Session 1 – Introduction to InsurTech Set the stage for the day, defining the main types of InsurTech companies and where these companies fit in the insurance value chain. Come discover where actuaries could play a role and the importance of the profession within this space. Technology driven innovation is multifaceted and could take place within an established carrier or a start-up.

Description: All you wanted to know about InsurTech but were too afraid to ask! This one-day event will feature four webcasts that will unlock and enhance the world of InsurTech. By attending this webs series, you will find answers on what InsurTech is about and what it’s trying to solve. Dive deeper into the successes of InsurTech and find out how to join this established organization. Session 1 – Introduction to InsurTech Set the stage for the day, defining the main types of InsurTech companies and where these companies fit in the insurance value chain. Come discover where actuaries could play a role and the importance of the profession within this space. Technology driven innovation is multifaceted and could take place within an established carrier or a start-up.

Description: "Stories have the power to change minds, and leading with facts and figures only hardens pre-existing opinions. Learn to leverage the power of story to effectively communicate with and enroll your stakeholders. Andrew Sykes, CEO, Habits at WorkAndrew Sykes is the founder and CEO of Habits at Work, an experiential sales training company on a mission to make sales the most trustworthy profession on the planet by empowering sellers to practice and embody the mindsets, skills, and habits that build and maintain customer trust. Sykes is a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and part of the Kellogg Sales Institute Executive Education Team where he teaches the award-winning course “Entrepreneurial Selling.”"

Description: This session series is sponsored by Zelis Shifting utilization of health services to efficient and high-value providers presents an opportunity to reduce harmful cascades of wasteful spending, ultimately freeing up funds for additional high-value services that will improve quality and member satisfaction. Identifying the right providers to put at the center of networks is challenging for any health care organization. How can you objectively determine which providers are delivering the greatest value when compared to their peers? And once those providers are identified, what’s next? Join Zelis and their partner HealthCorum to review a case study on a shared services organization where they leveraged statewide multi-payer claims data to produce provider level analytics, allowing for transparency into provider practice patterns at a granular level. By attending this session, you will be able to: - Create a fair methodology to benchmark providers. - Develop metrics and scores to identify high-value providers. - Produce actionable data to be used for network optimization strategies.