Casey Hammer
Casey Hammer is a principal and health consulting actuary with Milliman's San Francisco Health Practice. She joined the firm in 2013.
Experience
Casey has experience with commercial, Medicaid, and student health populations. She has broad and extensive experience in pricing manually and experience-rated commercial health insurance products, capitated payment arrangements, innovative new products and benefits, and legislative impacts. She has also assisted clients with the design of new products and treatment programs and evaluated the resulting savings. For provider clients, she has performed strategic benchmarking and provider reimbursement analyses. She also has considerable experience estimating incurred but not paid amounts, Knox Keene licensing, and in the design and pricing of student textbook programs.
Prior to joining Milliman, Casey worked for several years at regional Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.
- College Textbook Subscription Programs: A New School Way to Secure Course Materials. Co-Author, Milliman Website Article, October 2022.
- An Actuarial Perspective on the Relationship of Primary Care Programs and Healthcare Costs. Society of Actuaries Research, March 2021.
- Clearing up Confusion Surrounding Continuing Education Requirements. Health Watch, December 2020.
- Commercial Rate Setting and COVID. Society of Actuaries Webcast, May 2020.
- Readmissions and Data, World Conference Forum’s Reducing Hospital Readmissions Forum, Orlando, FL; November 2019.
- Patient Centered Medical Homes. Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; October 2019.
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
- Master of Science, Finance, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, TN
- BS, Statistics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Publications