Description: This article provides an overview of critical illness insurance: history, product description, and the three primary ways to offer critical illness coverage in the United States. This article also contains an illustration of an issue age premium rate calculation, as well as product features and rating applications specific to the various types of critical illness coverage.

Description: As the medicine practice continues to evolve, join us for this webcast to receive up-to-date information about the incorporation of scientific advancements and emerging evidence into the field. The creation of innovative treatments and the focus on improving patient outcome can cause information and price shocks, which will be one of the covered topics. Expect to utilize this webcast as an introduction to precision medicine, which is a genetics-based approach to healthcare. Speakers will share their experiences in demonstrating cost-effectiveness and promoting reimbursement with this new approach.

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: 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: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

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: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 5C: Transforming Health Insurance Through Consumer-Centric Products 10.26.21 Recording

Description: Get highlights from recently published and upcoming research from the SOA Research Institute, including work on specialty pharmacy and the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Presenters will focus on the financial impacts of these issues as well as trends and other actuarial considerations.

Description: Discuss changes in group life waiver of premium claim recovery and mortality experience since the 2005 table was released, the development of the 2023 table, and the new statutory valuation standard approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).