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Experience
Drew’s primary areas of expertise include:
- Medicare prospective payment systems
- Medicare prospective payment systems
- Claims coding
- Pricing of excess reinsurance
- Building of actuarial models for client use
- Provider contracting and reimbursement
Recent projects include:
- Managing the HCG Grouper software
- Managing the GRVUs and Medicare Repricer and Medicare Reference Pricer software
- Managing the Excess Pricing Tool (ExPrT)
- Identifying mistakes in the reimbursement logic of claims adjudication systems
- Evaluating risk-sharing contracts for a disease management program
- Adding SNF, long-term care hospital, home health, rehab, and inpatient psych prospective payment system pricing for Milliman’s Medicare Reference Pricer
Publications and Presentations
- The Rural "Big Apple": How a single hospital can determine the Medicare acute facility wage index for an entire state. Presentation and paper:
- https://www.milliman.com/en/video/the-big-rural-apple-medicare-reimbursement-changes-inpatient
- https://us.milliman.com/en/insight/rural-big-apple-hospital-medicare-acute-facility-wage
- Advantage plans: Synergies and potential opportunities. (https://www.milliman.com/en/insight/macra-and-medicare-advantage-plans-synergies-and-potential-opportunities)
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
- BA, Economics, Seattle University
- MA, Economics, University of British Columbia
Affiliations
- BA, Economics, Seattle University
- MA, Economics, University of British Columbia
