HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Employer-sponsored health & group benefits
Adding value and reducing costs of employee benefits
A diverse workforce, changing regulations, and rising costs put pressure on employer-provided health and benefit plans. Turn to Milliman for independent, unbiased, data-driven insights, and real-world experience to keep your health and benefit plans working for your business and your employees.
Milliman health & group benefits consulting
Providing strategic and comprehensive benefits solutions to employers and plan sponsors. Our focus is on helping you reduce costs, maintain compliance, stay market competitive and effectively engage your members through optimal design and plan management.
Private employer health plans
Whether it is developing a long-range strategic benefits program, understanding key cost drivers, managing plan costs, supporting vendor selection and monitoring of vendor performance, or engaging employees more effectively — Milliman is the right consulting partner.
Public sector and government employer health plans
Public entities face a variety of unique challenges when it comes to healthcare benefits. A vastly diverse employee population, the complexity of numerous union relationships, the impact of the bureaucratic landscape on decision-making, along with the heavy regulatory burden placed on this sector (e.g., GASB 75 standards). Milliman works with some of the largest and most complex public entities in the U.S. to help them effectively address these challenges.
Multiemployer / Taft-Hartley plans
We provide consulting services to hundreds of multiemployer plans, providing tailored advice based on a deep understanding of each client’s organizational history, strategy, and specific needs. Milliman aims to help your program reduce operating costs and volatility and effectively manage benefit costs and risks.
Pulse Survey
Milliman conducts regular pulse surveys focused on meaningful and informative benefits topics for employers. Read result summaries from past pulse surveys.
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Milliman health & group benefits services
Strategy & design
Milliman consultants continually bring fresh ideas, identify emerging trends, and provide thought leadership in benefit strategy and plan design. Our strategies and solutions are in alignment with core organizational objectives, while challenging the proverbial inert mindset and status quo. We work in partnership to establish strategic and measurable goals, perform actuarial analysis and plan design modeling to determine the proper path, all while continually monitoring progress.
Actuarial services
Milliman delivers a full suite of actuarial services, financial reporting, as well as data analytics and forensics. We provide the experience and expertise to convert data into actionable strategies that improve business results. Our consultants and actuaries leverage a variety of proprietary actuarial tools and powerful analytics to spotlight key cost drivers within the plan “ as well as discuss and implement the strategies and adjustments necessary to mitigate them.
Vendor management and selection
Managing the ongoing relationship with vendor partners requires Milliman’s level of vigilance on performance metrics, market knowledge and the ability to thoroughly vet potential new vendor partners during a bidding process. Milliman’s established vendor relationships are often at the highest levels of the organization which helps consultants negotiate optimal contract terms, conditions and pricing, as well as get elevated issues quickly resolved. Milliman provides comprehensive support for all benefits vendor procurement, renewals, and ongoing performance management.
Benchmarking
Identify areas of strength and gaps in performance with benchmarking reports that provide actionable advice.
Pharmacy consulting
Milliman can help you address the full spectrum of pharmacy benefit challenges, from pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) selection to plan design to ongoing pharmacy claims consulting, our experienced experts and smart technology are here for you.
Retiree health
Milliman combines the insights of our experienced healthcare and pension actuaries to provide clients with unmatched expertise in retiree health consulting. We assist clients with managing and funding their retiree health and postretirement benefit programs, as well as providing needed financial disclosures.
Group life, disability, and absence management
Group life, short- and long-term disability benefits are complex and challenging to get right. Our expert support includes actuarial valuations, vendor selection, plan design and pricing, and in-depth analysis to help you make the best decisions for your employees—and your business.
Dental consulting
Milliman offers comprehensive dental request for proposal (RFP) support services. Our experts regularly assist plan sponsors with self-insured benefits to balance offering valuable benefits to employees while meeting financial goals, via plan design support, experience monitoring and benchmarking, annual budgeting and premium equivalent development, and periodic capital needs and reserve analyses.
Employee communications
Health literacy has a direct impact on health outcomes. Through more effective communication, our team of communications consultants can help you communicate health and wellness topics from wellness incentive plans to open enrollment communications.
Behavioral health consulting
Milliman consultants are well versed in the intricacies of mental and behavioral health coverage and legislation and can provide guidance to clients on cost and utilization. Our behavioral health and population health teams use data to inform decision-making, including policy analysis, development and evaluation of population health strategies, and other interventions, and quantification of the impact of important public health issues. Our solutions include mental health parity compliance, integrated care, program design and evaluation, predictive modeling, alternative payment models, cost and utilization benchmarking, rate setting and negotiation support, as well as grant application support.
Stop loss/reinsurance
Choose stop-loss coverage that meets your needs and budget as risk-sharing payment models proliferate.
Health and welfare benefits administration
Partner with us to implement and manage a benefits administration solution that matches your unique culture.
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Milliman Benefits Benchmarking
Compare employee benefits to similar employers so you can optimize your offerings and better retain top talent.
Milliman Payer Network Check
Make high-quality financial comparisons of provider medical reimbursement rates across large insurance carriers.
Milliman Dynamic Pharmacy Analytics
Developed by analysts for analysts, SkySail ingests claims across the pharmacy benefit industry and produces in-depth, dynamic analyses for multiple uses.
Online Total Rewards Statements
Milliman’s Online Total Rewards Statements allow employers to communication employee’s personalized benefits and pay information all in one place.
MyBenefitChoice
Milliman’s benefits engagement platform allows employees and retirees to learn about, enroll in, or change their benefits all while providing plan sponsors with real-time data via a customizable dashboard.
Milliman DEPTH
Optimize your benefits cost management strategy.
Milliman Price Transparency Solutions for Payers and Providers
Demystify payer and provider contract pricing data for better transparency across the industry.
Milliman Employer Healthcare Plan Performance Benchmark Survey
Compare your healthcare spend against Milliman’s healthcare cost datasets to identify whether you are paying too much.
MedInsight
Adopt the healthcare industry’s leading platform for data warehousing and healthcare analytics.