Becker's Healthcare December 27, 2024
Climate change is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for the health insurance industry,
“The top trends that I am following are climate change and geriatric care,” Pleasant Radford, Health Equity Officer at UCare, previously told Becker’s. “Climate change has an adverse impact on the health and well-being of communities — it is important for us in the healthcare industry to combat the climate crisis and protect public health.”
At the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Fall 2024 meeting in November, industry regulators urged insurers to assess and mitigate the financial implications of climate change, recommending the use of climate scenario analysis to evaluate risks across their portfolios and emphasizing the need for a proactive framework to address these emerging...