Description: With a decade of experience, mature Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces continue to undergo significant changes amidst record enrollment levels. State activity has ramped up and similar themes have emerged. For example, an increasing number of states have either established or are considering operating their own exchange.

Description: Learn about the health care cost and utilization impacts of provider consolidation and shortages in the U.S. You will get an overview from a recent SOA research paper of the recent trends of, reasons for, and impacts of consolidation and shortages, as well an overview of the involvement of private equity's role in consolidation and shortages.

Description: Welcome and Opening General Session Keynote

Description: Session 3C: Disability Insurance and Behavioral Health

Description: Session 5B: The Evolving World of Biosimilars

Description: Session 6G: Stop Loss Market Trends

Description: Take your professional development to the next level, all in one place. Join SOA Board President Dave Dillon and fellow leaders for an inside look at Professional Development Edge+ (PD Edge+), the Society of Actuaries’ comprehensive subscription for continuing education, created by actuaries, for actuaries. Now, in its second year, PD Edge+ is trusted by 88 corporate subscribers to meet their continuing education needs. This webcast is designed for both current subscribers and those exploring what PD Edge+ has to offer. During the session, you’ll see how PD Edge+ simplifies earning CE credits and staying current on industry trends. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how PD Edge+ can make your learning more engaging, convenient, and impactful.

Description: Recording for ACA Challenges in a More Robust Enrollment Environment

Description: Patients with chronic conditions such as musculoskeletal pain, diabetes, and hypertension impact 50% of the US healthcare population, consume more than 85% of healthcare costs, and often require a higher volume of care, expensive imaging, testing, and emergency procedures, and long-term high-cost drugs. Managing these conditions through innovative digital health interventions provides a significant opportunity for higher-touch and more-effective management that will result in lower costs.

Description: America’s healthcare results are lackluster and worsening despite enormous effort and investment over many decades. Spending, affordability, health, coverage, access, quality, and healthcare workforce results are suboptimal or poor. Too many are suffering, and the system is financially unsustainable. We need a new approach, a new way of thinking about healthcare financing and delivery.