A global pandemic hits
COVID-19
There will be lingering effects from the pandemic.
COVID-19: Health cost issues for U.S. healthcare payers now and in the days ahead
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If you contract COVID-19 at work, is that a compensable workers’ compensation claim?
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Potential out-of-pocket costs for patients requiring hospitalization for COVID-19
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How the pharmacy benefit industry is reacting to a pandemic: Policy changes, actions, and potential impacts
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Episode 21: COVID-19 and the implications on healthcare costs
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IPMI market strategies winning business models key success factors and capabilities
This paper examines the strategies and business models adopted by leading players in the international private medical insurance market as well as the key success factors and capabilities required to win and sustain profitable growth in a post-COVID-19 world.
Pandemic risk on LTC insurance reserves
This article examines COVID-19 implications on current long-term care (LTC) populations, short-term (2020) and long-term (beyond 2020) projection assumptions, and the effects on the LTC industry as a whole.
COVID-19: Impact to dental utilization
This article explores the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dental industry, considering changes in utilization of dental services that could result from the pandemic and its containment efforts as well as the economic ramifications that are already starting to occur and may last for some time.
Impacts of COVID-19 on in-force long-term care insurance
This paper examines COVID-19 implications on current long-term care (LTC) insured populations, short-term (2020) and long-term (beyond 2020) projection assumptions, and the effects on the LTC industry as a whole.
Emergency Medicaid Waivers during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing historic pressures on our healthcare system and coverage programs alike, and Medicaid programs are a key mechanism states are using to address these challenges.
Widespread home testing can keep people safe and get them back to work: Here's how
Fast, convenient, cheap, accurate, and widely-used COVID-19 tests can help identify both infected individuals who should self-isolate and those who have recovered, pose low contagion risks, and can help others fight the virus.
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on health payer operations
This brief identifies five key payer functions likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and actions payers can take to ensure business continuity while enhancing their contributions to the value chain.
Medicare's telehealth coverage expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, could telehealth have the potential to replace some in-person services and better triage care based on needs?
COVID-19, business interruption coverage, and the “physical loss or damage” requirement
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How will an interruption in elective medical services affect existing workers’ compensation claims?
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Insurance
Impact of COVID-19 on best estimate mortality assumptions
Adjustment of COVID-19 mortality data points & impact on the calibration of mortality models
COVID-19 consequences for Indian life insurers
The onset of COVID-19 and the impact on capital markets pose several challenges for Indian life insurers.
Regulatory Reporting Updates in light of COVID-19
This paper summarises the three main delays that EIOPA recommends regulators offer to provide operational relief to undertakings if so needed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actuaries in the time of coronavirus
How should actuaries think and spend their time in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic?
COVID-19 and enterprise risk management
The COVID-19 pandemic is raising some profound questions for risk practitioners.
Pandemic risk modelling in Solvency II internal models: Example of COVID-19
This paper discusses actuarial perspectives for the calculation of the capital requirement related to catastrophic pandemic mortality as required by the Solvency II regulation.
The final wave: The effect of the coronavirus on the MPL industry
Healthcare providers, facilities, and MPL writers can expect direct and indirect impacts from the coronavirus pandemic—with the indirect impact possibly proving more impactful over the long term.
The impact of COVID-19 on Directors and Officers insurance
With the unprecedented challenges presented by the current and future effects of COVID-19, management and directors will need to be cautious with their decisions and consider consequences not presented in prior difficult times.
Coronavirus: Staying ahead of the risks
Firms need to be thinking and acting with dynamism to manage the here and now of the coronavirus pandemic and plan effectively for multiple future scenario pathways.
Coronavirus: Staying ahead of the risk (part 2)
This article further explores the coronavirus under the lens of a set of key principles we believe are fundamental to effective emerging risk analysis.
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, do you have the necessary Directors and Officers coverage?
With the addition of the global COVID-19 pandemic, an already tumultuous D&O insurance environment has the potential to get much worse.
Retirement
CARES Act funding relief for single-employer defined benefit plans
This article focuses on the CARES Act provision allowing deferment to January 1, 2021, of required defined benefit contributions due in the 2020 calendar year.
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
This alert describes Title III (Supporting America’s Health Care System in the Fight Against the Coronavirus), Part II (Access to Healthcare for COVID-19 Patients), Subpart A (Coverage of Testing and Preventive Services), of the CARES Act, which expands upon Division F, Health Provisions, of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
Market volatility and the effect on single-employer plans
The turmoil the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in financial markets raises profound and potentially long-lasting concerns for pension plan sponsors.
Rehiring retirees in healthcare and other essential businesses
While many non-essential businesses are closing temporarily due to government requirements, even leading to staff layoffs in some cases, essential employers in some regions are experiencing the need to increase staffing levels.
Considerations for layoffs
As employers are facing the harsh reality of implementing layoffs to maintain economic viability, there may be unintended consequences to various retirement programs, especially pension, post-retirement benefit, and other plans.
Pension risk management: COVID-19 FAQs
These FAQs help you thoughtfully consider the potential effects that market volatility resulting from COVID-19 can have on your plan.
Families First Coronavirus Response Act
This article contains specific information about what the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” covers.
Putting coronavirus market drops in perspective
The 1,190.95-point Dow decline on February 27, 2020, is the largest we’ve seen in the history of the Dow and amounts to a drop of over 4.4%.