Frederick (Fritz) Busch
Fritz Busch is a principal and consulting actuary with the Milwaukee office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2015.
Experience
Fritz’s experience includes 29 years as an actuary and business leader in the insurance industry. Prior to his time at Milliman, he was with one of the larger Blue plans and served in consulting roles with Mckinsey & Co.
His commercial carrier experience includes a wide array of commercial actuarial plan management functions, including reserving and annual statement work, trend analysis, commercial large group pricing, ACA individual and small group pricing, Medicare Supplement pricing, benefit plan design, and product development. At Milliman, he has successfully worked with a wide variety of clients, including regulators, insurance company executives, and other non-actuarial clients. He is a frequent speaker at industry and public policy meetings.
Recent client projects include:
- ACA Individual and Small Group market product development, pricing and filings, competitive analysis, strategic positioning, and risk-adjusted profitability analysis
- Market assessment and feasibility analysis, including utilization and unit cost benchmarking for ACA market entries
- Direct primary care strategy and pricing
- Annual Statements of Actuarial Opinion
- Association Health Plan (AHP) regulation, strategy, plan management, pricing, and implementation
- Provider contracting changes and impacts on commercial product development
- Multi-payer fee schedule parity analysis for a large hospital system client
- Capitation rate development
- Public Option, State 1332 Waiver, and other state-based reform initiatives
- Co-Author - Emerging Data on Consumer-Driven Health Plans. American Academy of Actuaries Monograph, May 2009.
- Co-Author – Consumers to the Rescue? A Primer on HCHPs and HSAs. Society of Actuaries Health Watch, February 2019.
- Presenter – AHIP National Conference on the Individual and Small Group Markets, 2017 and 2018.
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
- BA, Mathematics, Doane College, Crete, NE, 1986
Publications