Description: CMS has required hospitals to publish their chargemaster rates, cash discounts and negotiated rates as of January 1, 2021. Our panel is comprised of a data strategist, an executive from a large hospital system and an actuary.

Description: This session will include examples of healthcare claims and market data to be used for educational purposes to highlight trends in the insurance industry. It will also highlight opportunities to enforce existing laws around fraud and abuse, and areas for regulators and legislators to focus to address this growing problem. Finally, it will discuss recent law changes and highlight areas requiring additional regulatory intervention. Expect discussions of recent claim issues and laws in the healthcare market as well as emerging issues in healthcare. The presentation will be beneficial to healthcare professionals working for health insurers, healthcare providers, auditors, regulators and healthcare providers and will also cover professionalism related topics for actuaries.

Description: Think about the last time you revamped your organization's case setup and billing processes. If nothing is coming to mind, you're not alone. Many insurance carriers haven't rethought the way they do case setup and billing in decades, and it's losing them hundreds of thousands of dollars in premium annually.

Description: Investigate Deloitte's methodology to quantify the cost of health inequities attributable to racial bias, gender/sex bias and socioeconomic bias. We will illustrate the methodology by calculating total potential cost savings across different disease states and discuss both the role that actuaries play in addressing health inequity and the steps that organizations can take to activate health equity.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 2D Value-Based Models for Home-Based Care and Digital Health 10.25.21 Recording

Description: Explore key findings of an SOA-funded research paper on telehealth that will be published in 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused some health care delivery to shift away from in-person transactions to a more digital form of transactions, including telehealth, e-mails, remote patient monitoring and other forms of communication.

Description: "Examine the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and its potential to transform the patient journey. You will learn about the various touchpoints where AI is being applied along the patient/care journey, including provider search tools, claims analysis, and fraud detection. By attending the session, you will be able to: Have a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges presented by AI in health care Evaluate the potential impact of AI on their own organizations Be equipped with strategies for effectively implementing AI solutions and maximizing their benefits for patients, providers, and payers"

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 9B: AITSC Present I – Lightning Talks on Latest Research 10.28.21 Recording

Description: Risk Adjustment continues to be a hot topic in Health Insurance since its emergence. This mechanism came into being as a means of reducing the risk of selection, particularly in marketplaces where underwriting is not allowed, and rating factors are significantly restricted. Risk adjustment serves to adjust premiums to reflect the risk of individual members or overall members as a whole within a particular cohort of a health plan. Risk adjustment is not perfect, as it does not perfectly predict future costs or perfectly adjust for the differences in expected costs. Different marketplaces have different challenges with risk adjustment.

Description: Gather with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, pension, investment, product strategy, and more.