Fall 2024 MAAC Meeting
Format: Virtual (Zoom)
Date/Time: November 12th 12:00PM-4:00PM EST and November 13th 8:30AM-1:00PM EST
Agenda:
Tuesday, November 12th
12:00PM - 1:00PM
U.S. Mortality Trends Through and After the Pandemic
Speaker: Mary Pat Campbell, FSA, MAAA
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Professionalism and Selected ASOP Topics
Speaker: Dave Neve, FSA, MAAA, CERA (Actuarial Standards Board)
2:00PM - 3:00PM
PBGC’s Pension Insurance Modeling (PIMS) and FY 2023 Projections Report
Speaker: Kevin Muse, FSA, CERA, EA (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation)
3:00PM - 4:00PM
North Carolina Department of HHS, Health Opportunities Initiatives
Speaker: Julia Lerche, FSA, MAAA, MSPH (North Carolina Department of HHS)
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Tuesday Afternoon Breakout Networking Session
Wednesday, November 13th
8:30A - MAAC Business
9:00AM - 10:00AM
The FEHB Program: 64 Years of Employer Sponsored Coverage
Speaker: Brenna Scheideman, FSA, MAAA (Office of Personnel and Management)
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Anticipating 2025: Something New, Something Old, Always Possibilities
Speaker: Geralyn Trujillo (American Academy of Actuaries)
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Four Out of Five Dentists Recommend This Session: Hot Topics in Dental Actuarial Work
Speaker: Joanne Fontana, FSA, MAAA (Milliman)
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Military Health In The United States
Speaker: Geof Hileman, FSA, MAAA (Kennell)
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday Afternoon Breakout Networking Session
2024 Spring Meeting
May 21, 2024
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
The Spring meeting featured a presentation by Liaw Huang (FSA, MAAA, EA, Ph.D.), a member of the American Academy of Actuaries Data Science and Analytics Committee, on bias in the context of data, models, and algorithms.
Click HERE for a link to the presentation.
2023 Fall Meeting
November 15-16, 2023
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue? (Joseph Newhouse)
Updates on the Financial Status of Social Security and Proposals (Karen Glenn and Steve Goss)
Measuring Health Equity and Affordability in Employer Sponsored Health Benefits (CJ Wolfe)
Changing Healthcare Landscape: Role of the Actuary (Dan Rachfalski)
A Specific Plan to Address Diversity in the Actuarial Profession (Barry Jacobson)
Retirement Challenges in the 21st Century (Steve Malerich)
The Hidden Wounds: Mental Health and Russia’s War on Ukraine (Mitzi Perdue)
2023 Spring Meeting
May 18, 2023
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
The Spring meeting featured a presentation by Shawn Parks (MAAA, FSA) on the latest professionalism discussion papers of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Committee on Professional Responsibility.
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2022 Fall Meeting
November 14-15, 2022
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
Capital Allocation in FFS Healthcare (Platini Mamvou)
2022 Spring Meeting
June 2, 2022
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
The Spring meeting featured a presentation by William Hines (MAAA, FSA) on the topic of the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline (ABCD).
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2021 Fall Meeting
November 15-16, 2021
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
Session 1 (Fann): Premium Alignment in ACA Individual Markets
Session 2 (Wolfe): Predictive Modeling of Health Plan Selection
Session 3 (Chen): Stochastic Simulation of Public Pension Risk Sharing Policies
Session 5 (Dyke): Professionalism and Selected ASB Topics
Session 6 (Todisco, Guo): Actuaries Serving Congress: A Look at Actuarial Work at GAO
Session 7 (Cai, Keehan, Smith): Long-Run Projections in Medicare
2021 Spring Meeting
May 25, 2021
Virtual - Zoom Webinar
The 2021 Spring Meeting featured a presentation by Tom Wildsmith on professionalism.
2019 Annual Meeting
November 19-20, 2019
Sheraton Columbia Town Center
Columbia, MD
Session 1 (Williams): Professionalism
Session 4 (Bonelli): Opioid Epidemic
Session 6 (Stephens, Bosley): Social Security Disability Program Experience
Session 7 (Jackson, Conroy): Actuaries Climate Risk Index
Session 8 (Grote): Pension Risk Transfer
Session 9 (Sutton, Kirjusina, Nickerson): Social Security Provisions and Proposals
2019 Spring Meeting
May 15, 2019
Sheraton Columbia Town Center
Columbia, MD
2018 Annual Meeting
November 5-6, 2018
Sheraton Columbia Town Center
Columbia, MD
Session 1 (Hanewinckel): Predictive Modeling
Session 2 (Duncan): Blockchain Technology
Session 3 (Deng): Model Construction and Predictive Analytics
Lunch Session (Abramovich): NAIC Variable Annuities Statutory Reform
Session 4 (Steiner): Predictive Analytics
Session 5 (Schaible): Maximum Family Benefit Rate Structure Effects on SSI Households
Session 6 (Bosley/Clingman/Morris): Longevity Trends in the United States
Session 7 (Vigen): Financial Performance in Networks and Value-Based Care
Session 8 (Fiore): Historical Analysis of Medicaid Eligibility Expansion
2018 Spring Meeting
May 10, 2018
Sheraton Columbia Town Center
Columbia, MD
The 2019 Spring Meeting featured a presentation by Ted Goldman on the retirement readiness.
2017 Annual Meeting
November 8-9, 2017
Sheraton Columbia Town Center
Columbia, MD
Session 1 (Hofbeck): Predictive Analytics
Session 2 (Shatto/Truffer): Healthcare Reform Impacts
Session 3 (Kollmer-Dorsey): Professionalism
Session 4 (Shapiro): Multi-Employer Challenges
Session 5 (McCarthy/Pudlowski): Healthcare Intervention Programs
Session 6 (Goss): Presentation from the Chief Actuary at SSA
Session 7 (Morton): LTCI Developments
2017 Spring Meeting
May 11, 2017
Turf Valley Resort
Ellicott City, MD
The 2017 Spring Meeting featured a presentation by Ben Williams on the predictive analytics.
2016 Annual Meeting
November 9-10, 2016
Turf Valley Resort
Ellicott City, MD
Session 1 (Snell): Behavioral Economics: The Reason Strictly Analytic Models Fails
Session 2 (Pelzer): The Cost of Pharmacy Innovation
Session 3 (Nolan): Medicare ACO results and new developments in the MSSP
Session 5 (Sloan/Lowman/O'Konski/Goss/England/Burkhalter): "What Happened to the 3 legged-stool?" - Expert Discussion Panel
Session 6 (Goss/Sloan): Long Range Mortality Projections - Modeling and Assumptions
Session 7 (Rader): Certification of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expansion