Description: Level funded products often target the small group market (2-50) and can result in many manual and tedious processes for underwriting to perform risk assessment. Learn how a carrier used technology to help automate risk assessment without the need for paper medical questionnaires, and exposed a risk engine for broker quoting to enable near real-time of pricing for risk-based products. The approach reduced labor and allowed underwriting to focus solely on fallout cases while also improving pricing consistency. Discuss broader trends in the health market for risk assessment, including new machine learning cost predictions that can be used for automation and better predictions of future costs. Discussion topics will include underwriting guidelines, business rules, risk scores, and machine learning. By attending this session, you will have a better idea of new trends in risk assessment for small groups where no claims experience is available. And, better understand business rules that are common in underwriting for flags for review as well as how risk scores and machine learning can be used during the underwriting process.

Description: Is your development team or IT staff growing tired of last-minute requests to include additional functionality? Have you strained to explain challenging actuarial topics to non-actuarial staff for implementation? Do your teams find themselves revisiting deadlines & timelines when building solutions? During this interactive panel discussion, three technologists (two software engineering managers and one data scientist) along with three actuaries will discuss real world problems and approaches using experience from previous projects. Although the challenge of running efficient software teams is not unique to actuarial science, this webcast will discuss best practices on how to organize teams to reduce friction and context switching. Presenters will also explore unique actuarial challenges and concepts including how to address standards on data quality when building software, how to build intuitive software that meets actuarial standards and how test-driven development makes it easier to meet actuarial standards of practice.

Description: Planning for retirement is at the top of many minds. How do I save? When is the right time? What are my plans? But what are the impacts of your health on retirement? Learn more about the effects of a healthy lifestyle on retirement in order to maximize life span. Review more in-depth findings from a recent report sponsored by the SOA Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program and conducted by the Vitality Group, as well as other expert insights.

Description: How does where you live impact your health? The following research considers this question through the lens of social determinants of health (SDOH), which are factors relating to where you live or work that may impact your health. In the United States, there are geographical differences in SDOH which contribute to wide disparities in health status and outcomes. In particular, individuals who are negatively affected by SDOH may have an increased burden of disease, leading to a relatively high total cost of care and worse quality of life.

Description: This webcast will focus on recently published health research which examines the impacts of social determinants of health on oral health outcomes as well as on chronic kidney disease progression. Participants will gain insights on how different aspects of social determinants of health can impact how healthcare is delivered as well as the impact on health care costs.

Description: This session series is sponsored by Zelis Claim analytics produces valuable insights about provider cost, quality, and referral patterns. Provider networks can be created around high-value providers to improve clinical outcomes while lowering the cost of care. Programs to improve provider performance and/or incentivize members to choose high-value providers exist, but how do you bring all of this together to achieve desired outcomes? Join us to learn how to leverage provider level analytics to build and optimize a network with high-value providers at the center. Analyze the network for competitiveness and adequacy and demonstrate progress toward network cost saving goals to key stakeholders by modeling claim data for a member population. Finally, ensure the success of your network through an incentive program that shifts utilization to those high performing providers. By attending this session, you will be able to: - Build a realistic provider network with high-value providers at the center. - Evaluate the overall financial impact of network build and optimization efforts. - Learn about an innovative member incentive program.

Description: Fully remote and hybrid environments are here to stay and actuarial leaders are continuing to evolve their styles and strategies to accommodate shifting needs. In order to build engaged and future-focused teams, leaders must refine their management approach and be intentional about helping employees build relationships, connect to culture, and lean into their futures with the organization. Listen as the panel shares their insights and experiences on how they have built loyalty and increased productivity among staff to meet business goals and move forward in the new working environment. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Understand the state of the actuarial talent market and changing employee expectations, and what it may mean for your department. • Identify how to best support and engage your employees in a remote and/or hybrid work model. • Apply strategies to enhance communication, lead with empathy and build trust among your team. • Empower and energize your team to increase retention and overall productivity.

Description: As the ACA market evolves with changing regulatory and competitive landscape, the evaluation of risk and opportunity also advances. Discover new approaches to apply and determine key considerations when designing and pricing products in new markets or renewing policies in existing markets.

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.

Description: What are the latest product trends impacting the critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance industries? A panel of product development experts will discuss how pricing has evolved, new approaches and trends that are impacting product design, and key considerations when bringing new ideas to market. By attending this session, you will: • Learn about changes in the market that will help them price products. • Evaluate new approaches used in the voluntary market. • Identify the issues that will make your products successful.