Eric works with a variety of corporate, public, and multiemployer clients as a healthcare consultant. His assignments have included general consulting, post-retirement benefit valuations, rate calculations and renewals, benefit design, benchmarking analysis, estimations of liabilities and reserves, Medicare Part D attestations, and model building.
He also manages the development and maintenance of Milliman-wide claims cost and healthcare trend models used for OPEB valuations.
Publications and Presentations
Eric's most recent publications include:
Milliman Retiree Health Cost Index (2022-2025)
Multiemployer Alert: Extension of deadlines for COBRA elections and COBRA payments (June 2020)
Professional Designations
Associate, Society of Actuaries
Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Licensed Resident Producer, Disability (Health), Life - Idaho
Education
BS (cum laude), Mathematics, Brigham Young University
Milliman’s Retiree Health Cost Index (RHCI) measures the amount of savings (net of taxes) needed at age 65 to pay for a retiree’s remaining lifetime healthcare costs.
22 September 2022 - by Robert Schmidt, Eric Walters
We review the average projected cost for a 65-year-old under the two most common pathways for Medicare-eligible retirees and explore how these costs may vary
On April 28, 2020, the Departments of Labor and Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service jointly issued guidance extending certain deadlines related to COBRA continuation coverage.
