Description: This webcast will provide a foundational overview of LTC, including its role in the current health care system, the growing costs and demand, and recent legislative activity in the U.S. Gain firsthand insights from the director of the WA Cares Fund—the nation’s only state-based social insurance program for long-term care—covering its design, funding, and implementation. We’ll also broaden the perspective with an overview of international approaches, featuring the Dutch long-term care financing model as a case study. This webcast is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the evolving public policy and financing solutions for long-term care needs in the U.S. and abroad.

Description: Stakeholders in a specific state (Minnesota) were interviewed about the potential value -- and obstacles -- of a catastrophic backstop program to handle long term care (LTC) financing needs. The design would entail a payroll deduction which would produce a fund to pay LTC expenses once a deductible period (of 1 to 4 years, depending on income) was reached. This design was believed to encourage enrollees to cover the front end better than done today, whether by private insurance or other means.

Description: Come check out opportunities and challenges associated with using predictive analytics for LTC. You'll learn how carriers are using predictive analytics to support a range of business functions, including: - Pricing - accelerate underwriting without jeopardizing the risk profile for your new products - Experience studies - enhance your understanding of block performance and capture more granular experience trends in your assumptions with less subjectivity - In-force management - facilitate insight-driven interactions that improve policyholder satisfaction and optimize operational costs Expect panelists to discuss the infrastructure required to deploy predictive analytics and the ways in which predictive analytics can help drive key outcomes, including, improved market competitiveness, enhanced understanding, improved efficiency, and better policyholder outcomes. They will also talk about key hurdles to adoption, and considerations for overcoming these hurdles.

Description: At this engaging professionalism webcast, be prepared to reflect on the values of the actuarial profession and in particular the actuarial standards of practice related to long-term care.

Description: The risk/delivery/protection framework was first presented to participants in the SOA's Long-Term Care Think Tank seminar in a survey. That survey was designed to get participant opinions on how the system might evolve over the next five to 10 years. The results of the survey are summarized in the article.

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: This webcast offers “must know” information and differing perspectives on key IRS procedures that can be utilized by insurance companies to address complex tax issues and situations.

Description: A call for essays from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute's Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program, focusing on the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human longevity and its consequences for modeling future survival/mortality. Details submission rules, sample topics, and awards for essays exploring this subject.

Description: Private LTC insurers are paving the way for value-based care through working to implement care management programs that improve the lives of their policyholders before and during a claim. However, measuring the effectiveness of these new programs is a challenging task. In this article, we will explore powerful tools that can enhance traditional effectiveness studies and address some of their existing weaknesses.

Description: This session will focus on how companies can use innovative approaches to managing their Long Term Care (LTC) blocks. It will focus on utilizing external data and machine learning to identify which strategies are likely to be more successful on particular blocks of business. The attendees will learn how they can better use data to improve future financial outcomes in their blocks.