Description: Experience a comprehensive overview of the current purchasing landscape for health care services, with a specific focus on how healthtech start-ups can break into the employer-sponsored health care market. You will learn about the key players in the healthcare industry, as well as challenges that new entrants (+ B2B vendors more generally) face in selling their services to employers and health plans.

Description: Patients with diabetes make up 25% of health care spending in the US, and a variety of solutions to address the high cost of diabetes exist today, including disease management programs, clinical interventions including bariatric surgery and GLP-1 drugs, and food as medicine programs.

Description: Fully remote and hybrid environments are here to stay and actuarial leaders are continuing to evolve their styles and strategies to accommodate shifting needs. In order to build engaged and future-focused teams, leaders must refine their management approach and be intentional about helping employees build relationships, connect to culture, and lean into their futures with the organization. Listen as the panel shares their insights and experiences on how they have built loyalty and increased productivity among staff to meet business goals and move forward in the new working environment. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Understand the state of the actuarial talent market and changing employee expectations, and what it may mean for your department. • Identify how to best support and engage your employees in a remote and/or hybrid work model. • Apply strategies to enhance communication, lead with empathy and build trust among your team. • Empower and energize your team to increase retention and overall productivity.

Description: This webcast will explore hedge strategies that can take advantage of synergies with existing business, improve liquidity and collateral management, incorporate opportunistic design-making, and reflect a company’s appetite for certain risks where excess returns can be earned.

Description: Get highlights from recently published and upcoming research from the SOA Research Institute, including work on specialty pharmacy and 'Valuing the Impact of Technology in Health Care'. Presenters will focus on the financial impacts of these issues as well as trends and other actuarial considerations.

Description: Following recent market volatility and regulatory changes, market data and market-consistent economic scenarios are at the core of the valuation of liabilities and market risk benefits under regimes such as IFRS 17 and Long Duration Targeted Improvements. This webcast will explore options available to insurance companies to establish stable long-term volatility assumptions and discuss how the choice of financial data can impact the calibration and the simulation of credit spread scenarios.

Description: CMS has required hospitals to publish their chargemaster rates, cash discounts and negotiated rates as of January 1, 2021. Our panel is comprised of a data strategist, an executive from a large hospital system and an actuary.

Description: "Most patients enter the health care system through their primary care provider or through the Emergency Room or an Urgent Care Center. How an emergency room is structured, managed, and provides care is one of the major forces impacting the total cost of care. Yet it is often an after-thought and ignored by both health plans and health systems. In reality, the structured introduction of efficient practices can substantially reduce the quantity and cost of health care services. Further explore useful information to better understand and see how there are still substantial opportunities for improvement."

Description: Learn more about improving the modelling of individual decisions. This paper explains the concepts of hyperbolic discounting and provides a tool for improving the modelling of individual decisions.

Description: 2022 was a year of radical change for the annuity market as interest rates increased from historic lows. The rapid growth of RILA products stalled as FIA and MYGA products saw a significant increase in market share. The impacts of the higher rate environment are continuing to be realized in experience, inforce management, product design and more. Explore the retail annuity market with a focus on the impacts of higher interest rates. Expect session materials to draw on experience studies, sales results, product changes, and more which will examine how higher interest rates have altered the annuity market.