Description: The level-funding approach to medical stop-loss insurance is growing in popularity, yet is highly specialized. This session will give the actuarial community an overview of level-funding, including the basic mechanics, the benefits of offering level-funding to clients, and the five keys to success, including the ability to underwrite this specialized coverage.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 4B: Post-COVID Strategies: Connecting Pandemic Outcomes, Health Equity and Fiscal Sustainability 10.26.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 1E: Transforming Group Underwriting Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 10.25.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 8D: SOA Health Actuarial Research Update 10.27.21 Recording

Description: Discover the impact of COVID-19 on member costs post diagnosis and the future of mortality in this Emerging Long Term COVID-19 Trends webcast. This webcast will be split up into Health and Life portions. During the Health portion of this webcasts, you will learn more about the impact on risk scores due to recent findings. Enjoy this discussion and further dive into the emerging COVID-19 trends that may affect how you conduct business practices. At the Life portion, the SOA Research Institute assembled a panel of mortality experts who will express opinions on the effects of the U.S. mortality rate for general, insured and pension populations in the short-term.

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: Hear a summary of the discussion from the Health Section's Pharmacy Partnership Forum in March 2023 entitled 'Reimagining Pharmacy Financing' where a multi-disciplinary group of clinicians, health economists, academics, and actuaries met and discussed the following questions: How do we define the value of prescription drugs? How do we measure the value of prescription drugs? How do we scalably and meaningfully apply the answers?

Description: The session is based on an article of the same name featured in the January, 2023 issue of Health Watch. It gives a step-by-step method of how to apply the average paid PMPM method to calculate IBNR with zero run-out, as opposed to current methods, which generally require a three-month run-out period. Methods for obtaining confidence intervals for the IBNR estimates will also be discussed.

Description: The webcast addresses the four stages of effective leadership, and the three main drivers of effective leadership. It provides several metrics for assessment. Use of these ideas allows any leader in a leader-subordinate situation to raise the level of the subordinate to mastery level. The material in the discussion is based on an article in Stepping Stones (Sep 2023), "Are you an Empowering Leader", by Russell Jay Hendel.

Description: Join us as we summarize the impacts of recent studies from 2022, which update individual disability incidence rates and analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, we will look at expectations for the disability insurance market. By attending this session, attendees will: - Identify the impact of recent experience adjustments to incidence rates. - Understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disability coverage. - Discover emerging issues likely to influence disability coverage in upcoming years.