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: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: Develop a better understanding of specialty drug trends and their increasing healthcare costs for more than the past decade by attending this webcast. With the introduction of price competition, you will see changes in the market for biosimilar products and patent-protected drugs. For example, the drug Humira will be gaining 10 biosimilar competitors in 2023. Alone, Humira can represent over 20% of total pharmacy spend for health plans. Join us and discover how price competition is a turning point for the pharmaceutical industry and will define its direction for the next decade.

Description: Attendees will see how care coordination and navigation may improve outcomes when integrating across acute and long-term care needs within Medicare and Long-Term Care Insurance products.

Description: This session will include examples of healthcare claims and market data to be used for educational purposes to highlight trends in the insurance industry. It will also highlight opportunities to enforce existing laws around fraud and abuse, and areas for regulators and legislators to focus to address this growing problem. Finally, it will discuss recent law changes and highlight areas requiring additional regulatory intervention. Expect discussions of recent claim issues and laws in the healthcare market as well as emerging issues in healthcare. The presentation will be beneficial to healthcare professionals working for health insurers, healthcare providers, auditors, regulators and healthcare providers and will also cover professionalism related topics for actuaries.

Description: Come learn how Maryland is leading the charge in improving affordability for its individual market enrollees. Learn about the success of the state's 1332 reinsurance program and additional initiatives including further Medicaid expansion, additional state and CSR subsidies, and eligible population expansions.

Description: Listen to pre-eminent healthcare actuaries present their pitch for how they'd fix US healthcare (whatever the pitch thinks 'fix' means) if they were supreme policy maker for a day. No idea is too big, and no healthcare actuary's dream is too small.

Description: The Inflation Reduction Act represents the most significant changes to the Part D program since its inception 20 years ago. The implications will not only alter the benefits offered by Medicare Advantage (MAPD) and Prescription Drug Plans (PDP) but will alter the Part D cash flows and the seasonality of such amounts for interim reporting periods. In this session, we will provide a brief overview of the IRA changes and dive into how the changes could impact the 2008 Medicare Part D Accounting Practice Note.

Description: Attendees will learn what the Health Equity Index is, how it will be calculated, how it affects quality and Star metrics for Medicare Advantage plans, and how this could change the industry as a whole moving forward.

Description: Join us for a discussion of the supplemental health landscape for accident, critical illness, STD, and hospital indemnity products. This session will include both the pricing actuary and the regulator perspectives on new approaches, trends, renewal rate strategies, the competitive market, state-specific requirements, and more!!Attendees will learn about changes in the market that will help them price products, evaluate new approaches used in the voluntary market, and identify the issues that will make their products successful.