Peter Hallum is an associate actuary with Milliman’s Seattle Health Practice. He began his healthcare consulting career in 2008, and has experience in both actuarial and management consulting roles.
Peter is an experienced professional who has assisted government and private payers to evaluate, design, and implement payment systems that align patient outcomes with reimbursement. In addition, Peter has consulted in the actuarial and operations fields working on actuarial rate setting, Medicare Advantage bids, risk adjustment, pricing model development, and data and statistical analysis. Working to align facility payments with patient outcomes for state programs, he developed the original implementation of the State of Illinois Medicaid readmission policy, supported the State of Wisconsin’s provider outcomes dashboarding, and demonstrated patient outcome benchmarking to Arizona’s Medicaid Department.
His consulting roles include:
Provider reimbursement benchmarking for private payers
State Medicaid agency and private payer payment system reform – including Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Florida, and several private payers
Fee schedule development and modeling
State Medicaid agency waiver support – Arizona and Wisconsin
Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D bid development and support
Professional Designations
Associate, Society of Actuaries
Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
BS, Mathematics, Western Washington University, Cum Laude
17 October 2024 - by Peter Hallum, Charlie Mills, Mark Franklin, Lu Miao
We detail our work to help Maryland benchmark the cost and utilization of medical services against other metropolitan statistical areas for calendar-year 2022.
28 March 2022 - by Peter Hallum, Lance Anderson, Mark Franklin, Charlie Mills
Under the Total Cost of Care (TCOC) Model, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) is expanding its evaluation of medical cost from hospital costs only to all non-pharmacy components of medical cost, which includes hospital and other facility, professional, and ancillary costs.
22 July 2020 - by Charlie Mills, Peter Hallum, Lance Anderson
Under the recent Total Cost of Care Model, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission is expanding its evaluation of medical cost from hospital costs only to all components of medical cost, which includes hospital and other facility, professional, and ancillary costs.
This report contains calendar year 2017 cost and utilization summaries of commercially insured members under age 65, based on the Maryland All-Payer Claims Database and Milliman’s commercial benchmark data.