Description: Collateralized Loan Obligations have been around since the 1980’s, but recently have become a hot topic in the insurance industry. Join a panel of experts for an introduction to the asset class, covering areas such as the history of CLOs, why they’ve become more popular recently, the risks and returns of the asset class, and how actuaries can learn more.

Description: The SOA’s Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) has reviewed industry experience for both claims incidence and terminations. Based on this review, the committee has published two reports with experience modifiers that when applied to the 2013 IDIVT table best fit experience from 2005 to 2015. During this session, the factors and their development will be reviewed as well as their impact on active and disabled life reserves.

Description: While states face a wide variety of circumstances and have implemented diverse approaches to the MOE phase-out, we revisit the conversation to discuss emerging experience across stakeholders as we examine the operationalization of the PHE unwinding as it relates to this major disruptor in the distribution of the healthcare enrollment.

Description: What relevance does ESG and Sustainability have for actuaries? In the Life and Health space, we know that large protection gaps persist, reminding us of the challenges reinsurers and insurers face in reaching underserved customers who are often lower-income, less healthy, and more likely to suffer impacts of climate change. The Sustainable Actuary is focused on solving these challenges to make life and health insurance more inclusive. This ImpACTful panel will dive into these challenges and provide practical case studies of more inclusive insurance products that balance considerations for people, the planet, and profit. Listeners will walk away with ideas for how to use their actuarial expertise to enable greater social impact and sustainable business value.

Description: This will be the most fun you'll ever have learning about applying rigorous credibility standards in the real world! Measuring provider performance is crucial to value-based care, but no one wants to be told their data is not credible-so, what's an actuary to do? This session will mix in-depth theory with the messy realities of program implementation to give you tools for the real world. Whether or not you have ASOP 25 framed on your bedside table, you'll walk away from this session ready for the next time a business partner insists that 50 members 'is absolutely credible'.

Description: The dental and dental insurance industries continue to experience significant innovation advancements in a variety of areas including claims, customer acquisition, teletechnology applications, AI for dental disease progression and more. These advancements are occurring at the dental office as well as within dental insurance companies. Hear about some of the latest innovations in the dental and dental insurance spaces andl gain an understanding as to how cutting-edge developments will impact dental actuarial.

Description: Reinsurance can be used as a tool to improve profitability and competitiveness on in force and new business for companies. Emerging reinsurance solutions will help organizations better manage their capital in different ways. During this webcast, the following solutions will be covered: Use of reinsurance to manage and improve capital and profitability Turning spread-based business into fee-based business Strategic use of affiliate and sidecar reinsurance

Description: Employers, health plans, stop-loss insurers and reinsurers are all affected by the high cost of treating cancer. In recent years, cutting-edge pharmaceuticals, bone marrow transplants and CAR-T cell therapies have driven very high cost trends for cancer, with more emerging therapies on the horizon. In this session, we will review these new treatments, showcase models that aid in understanding the range of likely financial effects of the current, expanded, and likely-to-be approved indications for cell therapies that will treat certain patients affected by lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. This session will explain important considerations for modeling Medicare, Medicaid versus commercial populations, key risk concerns caused by the size of enrollee pools, and important differences between the various therapies that affect modeling. We will also discuss averted cost, health outcomes, pricing levels, and risks caused by provider billing practices.

Description: Unfortunately, for many long-term care (LTC) products, realized experience is worse than originally expected and rate increases have become necessary. Filing a rate increase on a block of business often necessitates a separate filing in every state, often with different requests for support for the need for a rate increase from each state regulator. This session focuses on the best practices for filing LTC rate increases, both from the perspective of the filers as well as the regulators. Learn what regulators expect from companies pursuing LTC rate increases and how to be prepared to handle the rate-filing process.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 10D: Updates on the Financial Status of Social Security and Proposals 10.28.21 Recording