Blake Stewart, FSA, MAAA

Experience

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  The Hartford

  May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Actuarial Intern

  Personal Lines Pricing • Constructed By Peril Territorial Indication tool to allow actuaries to perform granular data analysis to gain pricing advantages• Adapted quickly to VBA to create innovative, user friendly template streamlined with many options and macro-based features• Communicated issues and ideas to Best Practices Actuary and countrywide pricing Actuarial Leadership

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  USI Consulting Group

  Nov 2011 - Aug 2013

  Actuarial Analyst

  Defined Benefit Plans• Consulted 18 mid-sized employers on their defined benefit plans, including performance of valuations and FASB disclosures• Completed benefit calculations and improved efficiency in calculators to allow for higher levels of accuracy and timeliness• Contributed essential work and research to client plan termination process• Mentored new analyst and provided informative feedback to aid her transition into the position

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  UnitedHealth Group

  Aug 2013 - now

  National Accounts - Client Team• Performed highly visible and critical trend work under a demanding deadline schedule for United’s largest client• Participated in trend renewal and quarterly trend discussions with Underwriting and Actuarial Leadership for this client• Estimated the financial cost impact of various collective bargaining benefit and plan design changes for this client• Completed network discount and cost of care analyses for United’s second largest client under tight turnaround times• Prepared and presented benefit strategies for clients that included high-performance networks and plan design changes• Created tool that reflected savings assumptions for high-performance network products based on client-specific census data• Enhanced and maintained a pricing tool for a specific high-performance network product that calculated savings for clients based on various adopted product and plan design features• Repriced claims to perform ad hoc discount analyses for clients outside of the standard UDS submission Show less National Accounts - Private Exchange• Performed monthly calculation and verification of risk adjustment amounts for Private Exchange business• Created monthly projection reports for the Private Exchange containing risk adjustment and IOI projections to be presented to Underwriting, Finance, and Actuarial Leadership• Utilized Private Exchange and Key Account data to perform annual assumption studies for setting exchange pricing assumptions• Enhanced and maintained a Private Exchange calculation workbook for rating exchange customers• Trained Underwriting on internal pricing tools so they can price plans on the Private Exchange• Managed Private Exchange plan pricing process and provided necessary deliverables to regional pricing teams Show less Healthcare Economics• Utilized SAS to pull Medicaid market data and write/edit programs to reprice United’s paid claims to state specific Medicaid methodology• Created Medicaid Benchmarking Reports to compare repriced results to United’s actual payments• Researched deviations from state methodology or provider contracts• Discovered discrepancy in the Florida market that allowed United to recoup approximately $1 million in overpayment• Estimated financial impact of changes to Medicaid reimbursement (such as conversion from per diem payments to APR-DRG)• Presented findings to local market leadership, including the Finance, Network, Actuarial, and Operations departments• Trained incoming rotating students on the benchmarking process Show less Regional Pricing• Compiled quarterly rate reviews based on claims and revenue and participated in rate action meetings with UW and Health Plan• Completed pricing using various pricing tools for medical and pharmacy plans in South Carolina SG and LG portfolios• Analyzed competitor rate filings and performed competitive analysis comparing similar plans and their rates to those of UHC• Filed rates and plans with the federal government and SC DOI while adhering to state and federal requirements and guidelines• Met tight deadlines associated with submitting filings and responding to DOI objections• Implemented approved rates and tested rates to make sure they are being correctly represented from the filing• Priced plan modifications handed down from Underwriting to show the pricing impact of benefit design changes Show less

  • Actuarial Consultant

    Feb 2019 - now

  • Senior Actuarial Analyst

    Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Actuarial Analyst

    Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Associate Actuarial Analyst

    Aug 2013 - Jun 2015