Description: The is a comprehensive report on the development of an Underwriting Margin Model for Medicaid Managed Care programs, published by the Society of Actuaries. It includes disclosures, methodology, results, sensitivity analyses, and technical instructions for actuaries setting rates for Medicaid managed care programs.

Description: The document is a literature review on maternal mortality in the United States, focusing on trends, disparities, measurement issues, data quality, and monitoring systems. It also discusses how different indicators and definitions impact the understanding of maternal mortality in the country.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to release three essays addressing the actuarial impact of mental health issues in retirement.

Description: Behavioral health is a leading concern for employers and employees, especially with increased needs and awareness in recent years. Expect to dive into the following questions: - How are disability carriers refining their offerings and approaches to meet this need for their clients? - How are carriers thinking about the psychosocial determinants of claim experience? - Where may there be linkages between mental health and physical disabilities? - How might new digital innovations in behavioral health care impact claims experience for disability insurance? - How can actuaries make a societal impact in helping to bring solutions to the mental health crisis? Join us for a panel discussion with group benefits carriers and industry experts to explore these and other questions on this important topic. You'll gain knowledge on the intersection of behavioral health and disability insurance and learn how carriers are exploring new approaches to improve outcomes for employers and employees.

Description: Join us for a discussion of the supplemental health landscape for accident, critical illness, STD, and hospital indemnity products. This session will include both the pricing actuary and the regulator perspectives on new approaches, trends, renewal rate strategies, the competitive market, state-specific requirements, and more!!Attendees will learn about changes in the market that will help them price products, evaluate new approaches used in the voluntary market, and identify the issues that will make their products successful.

Description: Explore key findings of an SOA-funded research paper on telehealth that will be published in 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused some health care delivery to shift away from in-person transactions to a more digital form of transactions, including telehealth, e-mails, remote patient monitoring and other forms of communication.

Description: Get highlights from recently published and upcoming research from the SOA Research Institute, including work on specialty pharmacy and the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Presenters will focus on the financial impacts of these issues as well as trends and other actuarial considerations.

Description: The regulatory and market dynamics of the ACA's second decade are more predicable than the first. Come hear the latest information from industry experts on the emerging trends in ACA marketplaces. You'll also discover an understanding about emerging federal and state policy that will have pricing and financial implications. Finally, you'll get to learn what actuaries need to know to be well prepared for actuarial practice in the ACA's second decade. Key learning objectives include: - Comprehending the historical dynamics in the ACA's first decade which will shape the future - Understanding the changing national premium landscape for 2024, the 11th year of ACA marketplaces - Having a strong grasp on how the ACA's second decade will differ from the first from an actuarial perspective

Description: Hear highlights from recently published and upcoming SOA Research, including work on specialty pharmacy and long-term impacts of COVID-19. You will get an overview focused on the financial impacts of these issues as well as trends and other actuarial considerations.

Description: Through the sponsorship of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Society of Actuaries partnered with Wakely to use their health care data to study the effects of COVID-19 on overall health care claims for individuals with a COVID-19 diagnosis. The conclusion of the study is that individuals with COVID-19 claims had significant increases in health care costs leading up to their months of diagnosis, as well as in the months following their diagnosis. These effects were more pronounced for individuals who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 as well as for individuals with prior co-morbidities. Finally, the overall health care costs of these members plateaued at significantly higher levels than their pre-COVID baselines. In fact, all the main membership cohorts experienced claim levels that were at least 20% higher than their pre-COVID starting points.