Description: Hear an overview of recent results and potential scenarios that may impact the future of the ACA market. Review recent reported industry level profitability before transitioning to a discussion of how current market dynamics may influence the future profitability of this segment. Results from microsimulation economic models will be presented to help illuminate market shifts. Issues that will be explored include how ICRA availability might influence individual decision making, as well as how a move to level funding is impacting the small group market.

Description: Explore the findings from the research paper recently released by Milliman and the SOA, highlighting the growing need for support of informal/family caregivers. We will discuss both quantitative and qualitative data that illustrates not only the cost and burgeoning need, but the mental/emotional stressors that come along with this work.

Description: Learn more about Health Care Sharing Ministries (HCSMs) and their functionality as health insurance. These nonprofit companies pool money from participating members to assist with members' healthcare coverage. Further exploring HCSMs, some of the offered arrangements of this plan operate differently and with a unique regulatory framework. HCSM enrollment has grown 1000% since solidification as a law in the ACA. By signing up for this webcast, you can discover why HCSMs are becoming a key component of the individual market in some states.

Description: "Direct medical costs for cancer care topped $209 billion nationally in 2020, accounting for a significant proportion of all health care expenditures in the U.S. Indirect costs are also significant, encompassing loss of productivity, wages, leisure time and decreased quality of life. The way cancer programs deliver and are reimbursed for care is rapidly changing. As the cost of cancer care continues to rise, several new value-based care programs - both public and private - have attempted to curb these rising costs. Learn about the current landscape of VBC oncology programs, several key challenges and opportunities with oncology analytics, as well as anticipated evolution of cancer care in the near future. Topics include: Current VBC oncology landscape, including a more detailed discussion on CMS' latest oncology program, Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) Discussion on current challenges and opportunities with oncology analytics, including some advanced methodologies that have been developed based on documented clinical pathways to better understand cost drivers Future state of oncology care including emerging pharmaceuticals and novel therapies, personalized care regimens, and other clinical innovations"

Description: In late 2021, U.S. Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CCA), which requires group health plans and health insurers to submit information regarding the costs of prescription drug costs and other health care services each year to the federal government. Learn how this data can be useful to anyone responsible for forecasting and budgeting.

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: 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.