Description: This session is designed to inform you about the current state of mental health and mental health care in the United States, as well as future trajectories. By exploring topics such as plan design, provider network, provider reimbursement, and other relevant channels, this session aims to enlighten everyone on existing challenges and the strategies being employed to tackle them. Notably, this will include and highlight proposed changes to the mental health parity. Additionally, attendees will hear from a mental health provider/academic on these topics to gain a non-actuarial perspective.

Description: Join us in this webinar where we explore the intricate relationship between Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) and insurance, diving into the art of risk management within this industry. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the diverse insurance products offered by PEOs, the positioning of PEOs in the actuarial landscape, and the strategic navigation of regulatory challenges.

Description: "The script is for a Medicare session by the Society of Actuaries, led by Danica Turner, which introduces how revenue works on Part D. It covers the various cash flows and subsidies that Part D plans receive, including direct subsidies, federal reinsurance, and low-income subsidies. The session also explains the different phases of coverage and the upcoming changes due to the Inflation Reduction Act in 2025. The goal is to provide a high-level understanding of the revenue and payment calculations for Part D plans.

Description: The webcast addresses the four stages of effective leadership, and the three main drivers of effective leadership. It provides several metrics for assessment. Use of these ideas allows any leader in a leader-subordinate situation to raise the level of the subordinate to mastery level. The material in the discussion is based on an article in Stepping Stones (Sep 2023), "Are you an Empowering Leader", by Russell Jay Hendel.

Description: The Tri-Agency published the final rule on short-term limited duration insurance and fixed indemnity coverage at the beginning of April. We’ll break down the new rule, approaches to complying with the new requirements, and what implications it could have for the supplemental health market moving forward.

Description: This session will focus on the latest regulatory changes impacting commercial dental plans, including recent developments in Minimum Loss Ratio Requirements (MLR) and the potential inclusion of adult dental services as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB).

Description: Currently there are ten states in the U.S. —Rhode Island, California, New Jersey, New York, Washington, DC; Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon and Colorado —that have enacted Paid Family Leave. Paid Family leave is an employee funded state insurance program that provides wage replacement to eligible workers when they take time off of work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child. Who pays the taxes? The employer or the employee? How will this effect short term disability benefit offerings in the work place? How does a Paid Family Leave plan get implemented? Is it up to the employee to file for the benefit through the unemployment office or does the employer file? At the state level, how is paid family leave reserved for? How is it administered? What job protections are there? How does this work with the Family Medical Leave Act? Get these and more questions answered. By attending this session, you should have an understanding of the state Paid Family Leave programs, what it means to future short term disability plans, and how the state accounts for this program.

Description: Review recent incidence trends based on incidence data from 2005 to 2015. Examine proposed modifiers with IDIVT 2013 incidence tables and its impact on active life reserves. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Understand how your company experience compares vs. Industry. • Identify potential LDTI impacts based on industry experience. • Develop incidence modifiers for pricing and projections based on industry experience.

Description: At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to understand the potential for using global population health mortality and morbidity data in actuarial contexts. Using the Global Burden of Disease project as a resource, this session will discuss how novel population health research can be used to complement and fill in the gaps of existing input data sources for actuarial analysis and modeling. Presenters will share the latest academic research on the topics of demography, life expectancy, health-adjusted life expectancy, causes of death and disability, comprehensive disease incidence and prevalence metric, measures of disease burden for patients and populations, modifiable risk factors where there are opportunities to make interventions and improve health outcomes, and disparities between and within populations. This research is globally comprehensive and comparable between different markets and disease areas. The session will cover the motivation and purpose of GBD, a brief description of the models used, and dive deep on some selected use cases in actuarial contexts. Audiences will leave with: 1. Understanding challenges and opportunities in measuring disease burden comprehensively and consistently 2. Understanding relevant health metrics, including the drivers of future mortality and morbidity 3. Ideas for applications of epidemiological research in your work

Description: Prescription drug markets are undergoing rapid change - significant policy changes implemented through the Inflation Reduction Act, Congressional interest in long-awaited 340b reform, and a growing direct-to-consumer market have already changed the landscape significantly. The ongoing effects of these changes will continue to evolve for many years. Hear from leading prescription drug actuaries and pharmacy policy experts on what these changes mean for prescription drug markets and US healthcare more broadly.