Drew Osborne
ASA, FSA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary
Seattle, WA, US
Drew Osborne is a consulting actuary with the Seattle office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2010.
Experience
Drew’s primary areas of expertise include:
- Medicare prospective payment systems
- Claims coding
- Pricing of excess reinsurance
- Building of actuarial models for client use
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. (https://us.milliman.com/en/insight/rural-big-apple-hospital-medicare-acute-facility-wageMACRA and Medicare)
- 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
Publications
Read their latest work
Article
The Rural "Big Apple": How a single hospital can determine the Medicare acute facility wage index for an entire state
17 January 2025 - by Brian Regan, Drew Osborne, Maria Becker, Taylor Call
We show how a New York City provider increased wage indexes for most of the state by more than 10 percentage points by reclassifying itself as a rural hospital.
Article
MACRA and Medicare Advantage plans: Synergies and potential opportunities
21 February 2017 - by Drew Osborne, Christopher Kunkel, Lynn F. Dong, Michael J. Polakowski, Noah Champagne, Charlie Mills
While MACRA primarily affects Part B clinicians, there are numerous implications, synergies, and opportunities for Medicare Advantage plans.