Jackie Lee interviews Ken Clark and Robert Eaton about Medicare Supplement (Medigap) and short-term care products, including profits, pricing assumptions, and bundling opportunities for health carriers.  Together, they explore how bundling the two products may provide a complementary hedge of certain policyholder behavior risks.  Actuaries can better understand the risks involved with doing so, administrative components, and areas of analysis to consider.

In a purportedly highly regulated environment, ACA individual market premiums are largely misaligned across the country. States that have enforced compliance have improved consumer value and strengthened local markets…at virtually no cost. Chris Merkel interviews Greg Fann on this podcast, asking him about his recent article on the ACA’s unique regulatory/market dynamics.

Join us as Tim Deitz, ASA, MAAA, and Tom Kim, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, discuss LDTI implementation/modeling experiences and challenges.

Join hosts Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, and Shea Parkes, FSA, MAAA, for the second in a series of podcasts focused on machine learning in the cloud. This episode focuses on some specific Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Machine Learning offerings in Azure. These offerings are used as examples and we discuss some general pros and cons and how/why users might choose between various PaaS offerings.

Jackie Lee discusses specialty drugs with Kerri Miller, Pharm.D., and Sarah Hellems, FSA, as part of an ongoing series for the Pharmacy Strategic Initiative.  Together, they discuss innovations in the approval process, and dissect the magnitude and drivers of high costs, including effective and potential cost controls, from prior authorizations to accurate diagnoses, to modifying rebate contracts by incorporating outcome-based [value-based] metrics.  Actuaries are given insight into how they can move the needle in progressing efforts to expand access to specialty drugs in health plans, as well as making them more affordable.

Tracy Choka, FSA, MAAA, speaks with podcast host Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, on accelerations and major trends in reinsurance, leadership and actuarial workplace evolution. 

Char Hu, Founder of Georgetown Living dementia communities and CEO of insurtech company The Helper Bees, sits down with us to discuss the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on long-term care including staffing, safety protocols, digital transformation, and the future of both facility and home-based care

Ariel Weis, FSA, MAAA, FCIA interviews Mihaela Capra for a view of the risk management profession from the viewpoint of a seasoned risk management professional. The story is anchored in the experience of the speaker with insights on the current state of the risk management and on the risk professional of tomorrow.  

Chris Merkel and Stephanie Entzminger discuss the external forces currently affecting nursing homes, with a focus on the impact on Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

Join Jackie Lee for her chat with Roy Goldman, current SOA 2020-2021 President, for the Leadership Series.  Roy shares his inspiring actuarial journey, lessons he learned, obstacles he overcame, ongoing motivations, and his term’s highlights.  Hear his thoughts on the progress and challenges of the SOA’s Long-Term Growth Strategy, the SOA’s ongoing COVID-19 actions, and the importance of data science in the actuarial field.