Brent Jensen
FSA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary
Salt Lake City, UT, US
Brent Jensen is a consulting actuary in the Salt Lake City office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2010.
Experience
Brent’s consulting experience covers a wide range of health actuarial projects. He leads projects including pricing, reserving, employer health and welfare benefits consulting, and financial forecasting. His clients include large employers, insurance companies, and hospital and physician groups.
Brent’s recent experience includes:
- Employer H&W consulting – including strategic decision support, benefit reserving, design, and pricing for primary medical, dental, and pharmacy benefits, as well as ancillary benefits.
- Plan design relativity studies
- ACA rate filings
- Stop loss pricing and evaluation using simulations to help employer evaluate the value of purchasing stop loss coverage
- Extensive COVID-19 modeling and analysis for firmwide COVID-19 model development
- Benchmarking analyses to compare cost and utilization of services to regionally adjusted norms
- Wellness program ROI studies by applying risk adjustment to validate alternative methods for evaluating wellness programs
- Payer/Provider risk sharing arrangement and contract review to evaluate and set key parameters
- Bundled payment development studies to validate appropriate bundle amounts
- Evaluations of Centers of Excellence to estimate cost and utilization savings for these centers
- Contingency reserve analysis
- Actuarial aspects of annual statement work
Publications and Presentations
- “How Employers Can Address Plan Selection Bias with Risk Adjustment,” Milliman White Paper, September 2019.
- “Direct Contracting: A program summary and comparison with MSSP and NGACO,” Milliman White Paper, March 2020.
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
- BA, Economics, Brigham Young University
Publications