Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: As more gene and cell therapies enter the market at increasingly higher price points, they are ushering in a new era of medicine for rare diseases. Unlike most traditional therapies, gene and cell therapies typically have a short or one-time treatment administration and are anticipated to provide long-term clinical benefits. Actuaries must be prepared to assess, manage, and/or mitigate the risks associated with these therapies. This session includes three different perspectives—a regional plan, a stop loss/reinsurance carrier, and a health care consultant.

Description: Virtual - Session 3B: Medicare Supplement – Market and Opportunity

Description: In this panel discussion, actuarial leaders in the stop-loss marketplace provide their perspectives on recent stop-loss trends. Learn about the most current issues facing self-funded plans and their stop-loss coverage. Take part in a deeper discussion on this topic and more at Oysters, Beers & Large Claim Solutions on Tuesday, June 27, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. PT. This happy hour, featuring drinks and tasty Pacific Northwest oysters will include a discussion on the large claims impacts on the health care market.

Description: Gene therapy is a quickly evolving field and will continue to grow as a risk concern for many health plans, stop loss insurers and reinsurers. Currently, there are only two approved gene therapies in the U.S., but that number is expected to escalate starting in the fall of 2022. Revisit the experience plans have had with the first two gene therapies, discuss plan design and network considerations in light of gene therapy, and discuss the actual composition of the near-term pipeline along with a range of modeled financial impacts and considerations for payers.

Description: Session 2B: Pharmacy Risk Mitigation - Pricing, Programs, Pools, and Performance Guarantees

Description: Session 6B: Unraveling the Mysteries of Cell & Gene Therapy Eligibility and Demand

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executivesprovide perspective on topics to include market capacity, cell and gene therapy, COVID-19's impact on results, syndication arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and how reinsurers view a variety of risk transfer opportunities.

Description: Virtual - Session 8B: The Future of Transplantation and Risk Management

Description: The cell and gene therapy marketplace is quickly evolving and continues to grow as a risk concern for governments, health plans, stop loss insurers and reinsurers. In this webinar, we discuss currently approved tissue, cell and gene therapies, the near-term pipeline, uptake considerations, case management processes, plan document and contract considerations, risk mitigation processes and programs, and network considerations.