Description: The landscape of insurance is ever evolving with pet insurance emerging as a significant and rapidly growing segment. This webinar will cover a broad spectrum of topics essential for actuaries venturing into pet insurance, including: The pet insurance market, including major players, consolidation of the market, M&A activity. Actuarial issues like anti-selection spirals and the need (and opportunity) for growth. Regulatory headwinds. Whether you're new to pet insurance or looking to deepen your expertise, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate this growing field successfully.

Description: Health equity is taking a front row focus in many health arenas. Take a closer look at some of the efforts being used to ensure health equity. One area of interest to actuaries is value-based insurance designs (VBID). VBID can be incorporated into exchange plans. These innovations to prevent and treat disease have led to reductions in morbidity and mortality. Learn techniques to improve the quality of care and reduce barriers to high-value care in the form of high-cost sharing.

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: Collateralized Loan Obligations have been around since the 1980’s, but recently have become a hot topic in the insurance industry. Join a panel of experts for an introduction to the asset class, covering areas such as the history of CLOs, why they’ve become more popular recently, the risks and returns of the asset class, and how actuaries can learn more.

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. By attending this session, you will: Understand the recent average and variation of industry performance in the ACA market segment. Describe current policy and market forces that are expected to impact this segment. Explain the range of market scenarios that may result due to these forces."

Description: "Recently, the SOA incorporated additional material related to complex modeling techniques and modeling tools within the exam syllabus. This content could guide actuaries to both roles in traditional and non-traditional careers related to modeling. These modeling techniques can present some challenges, due to being computationally complex and hard to replicate or validate. With great power comes great responsibility. Following ASOP 56 can bring light and balance to modeling, specifically related to communications and disclosures of performing actuarial services centered around complex models involving AI and machine learning. At the conclusion of the session, you’ll be able to: · Consider how to apply ASOP 56 across different modeling roles, including model selection, design, modification, and use. · Document your work to appropriately communicate and disclose your understanding of complex models. · Learn how to evaluate and mitigate model risk."

Description: "Technical and analytical skills have been the main driver in the professional success you have had thus far. As you continue to advance your actuarial career, the work you do will become more complex, specialized, and likely, more important. Being able to tell a story about a project will help ensure you understand the analysis on a deeper level, will assist in more efficient communication, and will support understanding for varying levels of expertise. At the conclusion of the session, you’ll be able to: Understand the importance of visual storytelling. Identify what story you are telling given the stage of a project. Know how to tailor communication based on the audience."

Description: "Spread pricing is a pricing methodology where pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) bill a payer one price but reimburses the dispensing pharmacy a lower price for the same prescription drug. PBMs have historically relied on spread pricing as a revenue source. However, a growing number of states are introducing and passing legislation prohibiting spread pricing for Medicaid and commercial clients. In addition, new entrants to the PBM and mail-order pharmacy space are disrupting the market by offering services that promote increased transparency and member satisfaction. Expect updates on recent legislative trends and market disruptions targeted towards increasing PBM drug pricing transparency. By attending this session, you will have a better understanding of how changing legislation and market disruptions may impact current pricing methodologies."

Description: "Explore a general introduction to the opportunity of applying a relatively newer area in machine learning called uplift modeling, which has been successfully used in retail (Wayfair etc). The concepts are parallel to the intervention programs in health care, where we are interested in measuring the treatment effects and ultimately directing the right members to the most effective programs, driving the highest value for the programs both from a financial and health outcomes perspective. Uplift modeling can also be viewed in context of causal modeling where we are interested in assigning cause to a treatment relative to a member not receiving the treatment. Check out an introduction on the concept, seehow it relates and builds on existing work, and use a demo to showcase the potential of integrating this ML approach to current work."

Description: "Actuaries work with data, but that’s not the entirety of the profession. They need to leverage their analysis of the data to present findings and recommendations across various functional areas and management. In telling the story of the data, actuaries need to understand which tools are available to communicate effectively. In this session, attendees will hear from speaker(s) on various tools and how to use them most effectively in their day-to-day job. Tools that will be addressed include R, Python, Excel, and more. At the conclusion of this session, you’ll be able to: · Learn how to communicate results after analyzing data. · Understand various tools that could be used in communicating a story to management."