Description: A discussion of the significant challenges involved in attempting to research with robust analysis the impact of disparities in health care access, cost and quality of care on financial wellness across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other demographic groups in the U.S. for reasons other than or in addition to income, wealth or employment status.

Description: This session will bring together public health care leaders in COVID-10 vaccine delivery from both the U.S. and the UK to discuss and compare operational implications of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in their countries, and how those programs ultimately affected hospitalization utilization and mortality rates for members of their communities.

Description: The Society of Actuaries SoA developed this research project to repeat and expand upon its “Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis” study, which was published as a monograph in August of 1997. The general purpose of these studies is to discover and analyze factors affecting claim incidence rates and the distribution of claim sizes. This is the report for the database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for Group Health for the databases themselves.

Description: In late 2021, U.S. Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CCA), which requires group health plans and health insurers to submit information regarding the costs of prescription drug costs and other health care services each year to the federal government. Learn how this data can be useful to anyone responsible for forecasting and budgeting.

Description: The SOA Research Institute Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program and the Long-Term Care Insurance Section are pleased to make available a research report analyzing the need for informal caregiving and its impacts on employees, employers, and other stakeholders.

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: This article provides encourages participation in and provides instructions for participation in the 2010 CLICE study. The objective of the 2010 study is to provide useful unit expense benchmark information to actuaries and their managements from which to assess their own unit expense performance, while expanding the level of contributions. In addition, CLICE expects the results to be useful in enhancing the generation of the Generally Recognized Expense Table GRET in the U.S. used by some companies to demonstrate compliance with the NAIC model sales illustration regulation.

Description: Experience-study instructions to contributors. Looks to develop inter-company information about expenses for many types of individual [not group] life and annuity products.

Description: 2001 individual life and annuity expense study summary report updated 10-01-03.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses is currently seeking life insurance company data submissions to the 2009 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. This is a separate workbook that has been created for Life and Annuity business.