Description: Come explore an in-depth overview of telehealth to set context and navigate the continuing expansion of telehealth and its integration into the healthcare delivery system. You will examine the forces that shape telehealth offerings and expect a view of the possible futures of this evolving modality.

Description: "Hear AM Best rating analysts discuss the rating process and the best capital adequacy ratio (BCAR), a quantitative foundation for AM Best’s assessment of carriers’ financial strength. The benchmarking of BCAR scores for various company types (national MCOs, BCBS plans, smaller regional plans) will be discussed. Look at how changes in investment and underwriting environment impacted the results over the past several years. Further, AM Best’s view of the quality of capital and various factors impacting the overall assessment of the balance sheet strength will be discussed. By attending this session, you will: Gain an understanding of AM Best’s building block approach to ratings and how the BCAR results fit into the process. Learn the differences between RBC and BCAR models. Learn how various factors—e.g. liquidity, financial flexibility, financial leverage, the org structure—impact the final AM Best assessment of health companies' capital."

Description: "Spread pricing is a pricing methodology where pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) bill a payer one price but reimburses the dispensing pharmacy a lower price for the same prescription drug. PBMs have historically relied on spread pricing as a revenue source. However, a growing number of states are introducing and passing legislation prohibiting spread pricing for Medicaid and commercial clients. In addition, new entrants to the PBM and mail-order pharmacy space are disrupting the market by offering services that promote increased transparency and member satisfaction. Expect updates on recent legislative trends and market disruptions targeted towards increasing PBM drug pricing transparency. By attending this session, you will have a better understanding of how changing legislation and market disruptions may impact current pricing methodologies."

Description: Explore an introduction to Insurtech and a sampling of a few FSAs who have pivoted into Insurtech. You'll hear about their career journeys, how their traditional actuarial backgrounds prepared them for success in Insurtech roles, and about the Insurtech work they're currently doing in life insurance, health insurance, and property & casualty insurance.

Description: Explore insights to non-traditional actuarial roles from a panelist with experiences in data science, finance and entertainment. The panelist will be sharing their perspectives on their non-traditional actuarial role in relation to the actuarial profession.

Description: Join us as we speak with senior actuaries who have built successful careers and have extensive experience working in a wide range of actuarial fields. The panelists will share their knowledge and experience, as well as the challenges and opportunities they have encountered while transitioning into management roles. Their leadership reflections, best practices, and tips and tricks will provide insight to those looking to further develop their career goals and navigate today’s work environment.

Description: Risk is opportunity! Equipped with skills to analyze risks, actuaries are no longer limited to applying these skills solely within traditional actuarial roles. Listen in as the presenters share their career experience in a non-traditional role and provide insights on how being an actuary can bring additional value to the profession.

Description: Actuaries and underwriters are trained in different skills and approach risk selection from different perspectives. These differences sometimes lead to silos and limited interactions within companies as each one focuses on executing their area of expertise. With new underwriting tools and risk selection processes, the existence of silos between actuaries and underwriters can stagnate an insurer's long-term success. But how do you truly break down these silos when each speaks a different language? Join a panel of actuaries and underwriters as they explore how the two worlds collide and where there can be improved room for collaboration in product development, risk assessment, and innovation. Find out how actuaries and underwriters can best work together to: - Find common understanding. - Align risk selection and pricing. - Ensure mortality and expense assumptions are realized in the course of new business sales.

Description: Explore a brief overview of federal income taxation of health insurers and selected technical tax topics during this panel discussion webcast. You'll dive into the evolution of heath insurers and healthcare-related services and the arising questions regarding their risk-bearing activities, as well as whether or not certain types of healthcare businesses qualify as "insurance companies" for federal income tax purposes. Also, expect to learn about loss reserves for guaranteed renewable contracts and how they can affect insurance company tax status. This webcast will continue to highlight how the IRS challenges loss reserves of health insurers as the panelists review the status of tax cases, IRS guidance and recent IRS activity regarding "margins."

Description: Innovation in technology has disrupted nearly every industry creating mounting internal and external pressures on organizations to accelerate the adoption of their digital agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic further brought to light the need for technology to be adaptable, powerful and scalable. As the insurance industry leaps into the future, actuaries must not only proactively refine their roles and responsibilities within insurance organizations, but also seek opportunities for improvements and optimization in their day-to-day work. Discover a variety of opportunities in using modern technology to streamline, accelerate and optimize actuarial processes. Cover a wide spectrum of actuarial solutions from automation of actuarial data transformation to actuarial reserve calculations and calibration of economic scenarios.