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Professional designations
Fellow, Society of Actuaries
Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Current responsibility
Bruce is a principal and consulting actuary with the New York office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 1987.
Experience
Bruce's practice focuses on helping clients succeed in healthcare. He consults to healthcare businesses, integrated delivery systems, employers, providers, advocacy groups, HMOs, and reinsurers on issues ranging from market strategies and capitation to healthcare reform. Although Bruce is an actuary, for most projects, he develops solutions that integrate the financial, clinical, and operational components required for financial success.
In recent years, cutting-edge client projects have included an assessment of cancer screening, pandemic influenza, healthcare reform evaluations for advocacy groups, the restructuring of disease management vendor processes, and actuarial cost/benefit evaluations for pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Honors
Bruce is a member of C-Change, the cancer collaborative. He served on the board of the Health Project (Koop Awards) from 2002-2004. He also served on the National Advisory Committee of RW Johnson Foundation’s Rewarding Results Program.
Presentations and publications
Bruce is the editor and co-author of Managing Risk: A Leader’s Guide to Creating a Successful Managed Care Provider Organization (AHA Publishing, 1998) and Calculated Risk: A Provider’s Guide to Assessing and Controlling the Financial Risk of Managed Care (American Hospital Publishing, 1995). Bruce has also authored several Milliman research reports on topics such as obesity, hepatitis C, hospital outpatient trends, healthcare reform, and programs for the disabled elderly.
He is co-author of several scientific articles on hospice- and hospital-acquired infections, and is the co-author of Employee Benefits for Small Business (JK Lasser, Simon & Schuster, 1991, 1992). His contributions are part of the current Society of Actuaries exam syllabus. | 