Description: CMS launched the value-based insurance design (VBID) model in 2017, allowing health plans to offer innovative supplemental benefits and incentives to beneficiaries to use high-value services specific to their health care needs or socioeconomic position. CMS's stated goal is to encourage health plans to implement strategies that focus on health equity. The model has evolved over time and has grown tremendously in popularity over the years since it was introduced.

Description: In today's growing supplemental health space, innovative benefit offerings are essential for both marketability and market competition. Discuss the latest trends in accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plan design, as well as the regulatory hurdles that can be involved when implementing these new benefits.

Description: This report provides actuaries and other professionals working with risk, data and analytics or program evaluation in the health care space with considerations and frameworks related to the use of determinants of health (DOH) in data and actuarial work streams. Such frameworks can leverage new data sources to enrich health care data analysis to move beyond traditional data elements, such as age, gender, zip code or health diagnosis.

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: The Living to 100 monograph is composed of the papers, essays, panel discussions, teaching and keynote sessions presented at the symposium.

Description: Actuarial Perspectives on COVID-19: June 10 Twitter Chat with the Society of Actuaries

Description: This document is a Request for Proposal (RFP) issued by the SOA Research Institute, seeking researchers to assess the impact of artificial intelligence on the insurance and healthcare industries in Asia, with specific research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission guidelines, and appendix providing cost estimates.

Description: In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken an increasingly prominent role as a potential tool for improving processes from standard internet searches to its use in improving actuarial modeling through machine learning and other applications. The use of AI models and machine learning could lead additional and ongoing improvement of predictive capabilities in health care reserves resulting in potentially more accurate reserve estimates, financial statements and decreases in model variance.

Description: The Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Committee is looking for a risk adjustment proposal that will examine the current risk adjustment landscape in the US and globally and the effect of increased complexity on risk adjustment accuracy.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (“SOA”) Research Institute is the research arm of the SOA, providing objective, data-driven research that brings together tried and true practices and future-focused approaches to address societal challenges and business needs. The Institute provides trusted knowledge, extensive experience and new technologies to help effectively identify, predict and manage risks.