Description: Almost half of recent FDA approvals have been for orphan drugs. This trend is expected to continue in 2023. Orphan drugs are priced more than 30 times higher than non-orphan drugs, therefore their cost burden in aggregate has the potential to overwhelm the budgets of payers, especially that of smaller health plans. Hear how the cost impact analysis for smaller health plans require different considerations than for a larger health plan when modeling the impact of rare diseases.

Description: Reunite with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, IFRS 17, product strategy, cross-border communication and discussion, and more. Advance your career through learning and networking opportunities, and share your experiences in the finance and insurance industries, as well as other fields related to actuarial science.

Description: This is a 4-hour predictive analytics competition. It will be developed by the PAF and Modeling section. The competition will use publicly available data and ask participants to predict the outcome. The person with the best prediction will win the competition. The competition can be done on an individual for team basis. We don’t allow more than 4 people on a team.

Description: Overview about the information covered in the Predictive Analytics Certificate and how that is useful for actuaries.

Description: SOA predictive analytics certificate program provides strong theoretical background and practical, hands-on experience that can be applied to decision making

Description: Defines Accelerated Underwriting programs as a transformational trend, and outlines a process for evaluating mortality implications of such programs.

Description: This addresses the changing role for property-casualty actuaries as companies are looking toward actuaries to play a bigger role in moving the business forward.

Description: First article in a series that walks through the progression from developing LTC assumptions using traditional methods to doing so using predictive analytics.

Description: Collaborative filtering models drive recommendations provided by Netflix and Amazon. This article uses the same models to explore patients’ medical conditions.

Description: Highlights of two 2018 health events organized by the Colombian Association of Actuaries and sponsored by the Colombian Government. Seminar on Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling in Health. Seminar on Risk Management for the Health Insurers