Bruce S. PyensonPrincipal, Consulting Actuary
 FSA, MAAA

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. Most of his projects involve integrating analytics from financial, clinical, and operational models.

In recent years, client projects have included assessment of cancer screening, lung cancer mortality, pandemic influenza, healthcare reform evaluations for advocacy groups, feasibility analyses for Accountable Care Organizations, restructuring of disease management processes, and actuarial cost/benefit evaluations for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Bruce is active in the cancer collaborative C-Change. He served on the board of the Health Project (Koop Awards) from 2002-2004 and 2010-2011, and 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)
  • "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 scientific articles on hospice, hepatitis C, and hospital-acquired infections, and is co-author of Employee Benefits for Small Business (JK Lasser, Simon & Schuster, 1991, 1992). The current Society of Actuaries exam syllabus includes his work on provider risk.
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Bruce  S.  Pyenson 

Office: New York, N.Y.

Phone: +1 646.473.3000