Description: The presenters will discuss market impacts of Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk adjustment results with a focus on recently released 2024 results. Their discussion will include the challenges of a single risk adjustment model and the growing state variations that impact risk dynamics.

Description: Enjoy an in-depth walkthrough of the facets of the lab testing world in this webcast. The agenda will include a discussion on genetic testing, which focuses on its general background, current trends and tests in the pipeline, as well as a focus on the approaches to achieve savings in lab testing. Finally, expect to check out sample actuarial analyses that will be used to identify areas of focus in lab management. Join us and take a deeper look into lab work in the actuarial health industry.

Description: Many states have recently introduced mandatory paid family and medical leave (PFML) programs, which require employers to provide PFML benefits to their employees. This session explores recent trends in PFML programs, including plan design, pricing, employee perception, employer challenges, and current activity in various states.

Description: In this webcast, the presenter will cover mental health in insurance products. Learn about the public’s increased interest in mental health and the ways insurers can meet this demand, how we can embed such offerings in insurance and how to successfully expand mental health coverage to those in need. The second speaker will cover how cancer and the simplified issue insurance market has evolved in Korea. In this session, the speaker will share the ease of selling / onboarding, thus allowing a greater penetration of products.

Description: It happens every year: hurricanes, wildfires, and floods destroy property, interrupt routine care, and exacerbate chronic conditions. Clearly, general insurance and health actuaries need to reflect these conditions in their pricing projections even though there are lots of unanswered questions about the frequency, intensity, and location of significant events. In this session, the presenters will discuss how to reflect the impact of climate change in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries. After this session, attendees will be able to: - Describe the impact of climate change on property damage and healthcare - Identify relevant data sources and methods needed to reflect the impact of climate change for use in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries - Discuss the risk associated with climate change

Description: Medicare Advantage plans have been in the market for two decades. In this session, we survey the landscape changes from 2006 up to now, which include but not limited to the changes of enrollment, plan types, big players' market share, policies, and how players as well as beneficiaries react to the changes. This session intends to provide general MA knowledge and history to the audience with or without Medicare Advantage background.

Description: Is 2024 the year you need to implement U.S. GAAP Long-Duration Targeted Improvements for individual health insurance products? In this session, we will discuss implementation and the importance of working with accountants and IT to ensure a successful implementation. Some requirements will be a surprise to health actuaries.

Description: Sarah Rockhill, MPH, Geospatial Epidemiologist at CDC will discuss the latest in the Public Health 3.0 model in which leaders serve as Chief Health Strategists, partnering across multiple sectors and leveraging data and resources to address social, environmental, and economic conditions that affect health and health equity.

Description: Value-based care (VBC) arrangements have grown exponentially in recent years with an expectation that this shift will only continue across the health care industry. CMS has set the goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare and the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executives will provide an overview of the health reinsurance market that explores existing reinsurance transactions reported under Schedule S, large claim research drawing insight from the latest five-year Merative Commercial MarketScan Research Database, stop-loss reinsurance options for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and other reinsurance applications being seen in the market.