Description: Investigate Deloitte's methodology to quantify the cost of health inequities attributable to racial bias, gender/sex bias and socioeconomic bias. We will illustrate the methodology by calculating total potential cost savings across different disease states and discuss both the role that actuaries play in addressing health inequity and the steps that organizations can take to activate health equity.

Description: Virtual - Session 2C: Innovative Care Models for Medicare & Medicaid Dually - Eligible Populations

Description: "This session will explore the critical challenges and solutions surrounding algorithmic fairness in the life insurance industry. The presenters will delve into the fundamental mechanisms of model bias, examining how predictive algorithms can yield outcomes that systematically discriminate against certain groups through flawed machine learning processes, erroneous assumptions, or biased data. Participants will gain insights into the various manifestations of bias in insurance models and understand their profound implications for both consumers and insurers. Real-world case studies and examples from the insurance industry will illustrate these concepts, while a discussion of recent regulatory developments will provide context for compliance requirements. This session is essential for actuaries, data scientists, and insurance professionals committed to developing and maintaining ethical, unbiased predictive models."

Description: "Informal caregiving is far more costly than many people realize. And not just in the immediate future. Current demographic trends suggest that caregiving will become even more necessary and costly as the Baby Boomers continue to age and require more support and services. In 2022, the SOA engaged Milliman, Inc. to conduct an analysis of the need for informal caregiving and its impacts on employees, employers, and other stakeholders. The purpose of this research was to educate stakeholders, policymakers, and other interested parties on the realm of informal caregiving, as well as how the challenges associated with providing informal care of all kinds might be addressed. Discover key findings and themes from the research project, as well as stories highlighting the various forms this role can take, and solutions currently being developed around the country. An open discussion on ways our profession can impact this growing need with the work we do every day in our respective roles will also be included."

Description: Be a part of an interactive discussion on post COVID-19 pandemic mortality. Panelists examine mortality trends and their drivers and what the future may hold. Multiple perspectives will be presented. Topics discussed and debated will be based on your input so come prepared to ask questions and contribute to the discussion. By attending this session, you'll be able to: - Identify current and emerging mortality trends. - Better understand these latest mortality issues and their potential actuarial practice implications. - Apply these learnings to your daily practice.

Description: In this webcast, presenters discuss the results from a recent Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program study comparing U.S. general population mortality and life expectancy using different definitions of health status including those individuals without impairments.

Description: What are the recent trends in mortality? Should we expect different mortality experience in a post-COVID-19 world? Join us as we review the latest emerging trends in U.S. population mortality. By the end of this session, you will understand the impact of COVID-19 on future mortality experience. You will also understand other major causes of mortality and how they are trending.

Description: The SOA Research Institute’s Living to 100 Symposium gathers researchers from many specialties, including demographers, medical researchers, academics, insurtechs and actuaries to discuss their latest research on longevity. Come check out the highlights from the 2023 symposium.

Description: Deaths due to non-medical causes such as drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths, homicides, suicides and accidents are the leading cause of death for those under the age of 50 in the U.S. and is the fourth leading cause of death (after cardiovascular, cancer and COVID-19) for all ages combined in 2021. Take a deep dive with us into the mortality trends for non-medical causes of death and the impact these deaths have on different types of life insurance, including simplified issued, fully underwritten and group.

Description: Mortality improvement assumptions have typically been focused on all-cause mortality improvement. However, as evidenced in recent years, the cause of death has a large impact on mortality improvement. Join our panel of experts as they discuss mortality improvement through the lens of different causes of death. This discussion will include a review of the historical cause specific mortality improvement trends seen in the U.S. population and how this relates to the insured population. The panelists will then discuss how to use these trends to inform future mortality improvement assumptions. Key learning objectives include: - Identifying the trends in mortality improvement for select causes of death - Understanding how to adapt these for an insured population - Applying these learnings to mortality improvement assumptions