Canadian Group and Health Benefits Specialist​

2 sequenced courses

GH 101
Benefits and Pricing ▼
  • Plan & Product Provisions: Understand how to describe plan provisions typically offered under short-duration contracts (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, group life).
  • Manual Rates: Calculate and recommend a manual rate for each of the contracts described in Learning Objective 1.
  • Underwriting & Funding: Apply principles of pricing, risk assessment, and funding to an underwriting situation.
  • Employee Benefits: Evaluate and recommend an employee benefit strategy.
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GH 201-C
Valuation and Regulation, Canada ▼
  • Reserving: Apply valuation principles for group and health insurance contracts.
  • Financial Statements: Prepare and interpret insurance company financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
  • Regulation & Taxation: Evaluate the impact of regulation and taxation on insurance companies and plan sponsors in Canada.
  • Government Programs: Describe and evaluate government programs providing health and disability benefits in Canada.
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2 additional courses

CP 321
Disability, Long-Term Care, and Long-Duration Health Contracts ▼
  • Plan & Product Provisions: Describe benefits typically offered under long-duration contracts (disability income, long-term care, critical illness, Medicare Supplement).
  • Manual Rating: Calculate rates for each of the contracts described in Learning Objective 1.
  • Reserving: Apply valuation principles for long-duration contracts.
  • Financial Statements: Prepare and interpret insurance company financial statements for long duration contracts.
  • Retiree Group Benefits: Design and perform valuations of Retiree Group Benefits.
  • Asset Adequacy: Apply asset matching and asset adequacy standards as they apply to long duration contracts.
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GH 301
Health Analytics and Management ▼
  • Provider Contracting and Reimbursement: Evaluate the effectiveness of provider reimbursement methods from both a cost and quality viewpoint.
  • Disease Management: Evaluate health care intervention programs.
  • Health Care Risk Adjustment: Apply risk adjustment in actuarial work.
  • Social Determinants of Health: Explain the determinants of health (SDOH) and their impact on health care costs and policy.
  • Medical Data: Describe medical coding, sources of data, and data quality.
  • Predictive Analytics: Apply the framework of predictive analytics to health care data and business applications.
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