Mike Gaal

With more than 25 years of experience, Mike mainly works in the commercial market, with a deep background in advising health plans and employer-sponsored health plans. He covers all aspects of plan management (vendor procurement, plan design, modeling, forecasting) and has often acted as an independent consultant, such as verifying savings methods or serving as an expert witness.

Mike is passionate about improving the US healthcare system and he has been a leader in Milliman’s efforts to create actionable insights from enriching publicly available healthcare price transparency data. Mike and his team support health plans, providers, employers, and other industry stakeholders to better analyze and understand the data. He is a regular speaker and writer on the topic of price transparency.

Before coming to Milliman, Mike worked for a firm that focused on consulting to hospitals, health systems, and medical groups, mainly advising on the topics of compensation and benefits for employees, physicians, and executives.

In addition, Mike spent nearly 10 years as a healthcare benefits consultant to large employers in the general industry where he assisted employers on benefit design, flexible benefits pricing, vendor procurement, data analytics, and the impact of health care reform on employee benefit programs.