Marcella Giorgou
ASA, EA, FSA, MAAA
Principal & Consulting Actuary
New York, NY, US
Marcella Giorgou is a principal and consulting actuary in the New York office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2004.
Experience
Marcella provides health and welfare benefits consulting services. These services focus on the design and delivery of benefits and include plan design review and analysis, assistance in collective bargaining negotiations, compliance support, renewal negotiations, reserve calculations, Medicare Part D attestations, and financial projections.
Marcella also has experience providing actuarial support services to corporate, multiemployer, and not-for-profit post-retirement benefit plans. Her experience includes accounting valuations of pension and post-retirement medical plans.
Professional Designations
- Enrolled Actuary
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Education
- BS, Actuarial Science and Finance, New York University’s Stern School of Business
Publications
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Article
The COVID-19 emergencies are ending. What does that mean for health plans?
25 April 2023 - by Stephanie Peterson, Marcella Giorgou, Anna Morgan, Amanda Burkhart
As COVID-19 testing and vaccine coverage requirements are rolled back, Milliman health experts discuss how health plans are reacting to these and other changes.
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Health & Group Benefits Update: Additional guidance issued through FAQs on coverage for OTC COVID-19 tests
16 February 2022 - by Marcella Giorgou
We provide plan sponsors the latest information regarding the coverage requirements for OTC COVID-19 tests, based on recent FAQs issued by federal agencies.
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Status of collectively bargained benefits: Multiemployer health and welfare fund statistics
08 August 2018 - by Marcella Giorgou, David Stoddard
This report analyzes the financial disclosures of Taft-Hartley health and welfare plans nationwide.
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Health and Group Benefits News and Developments, March 2018
03 April 2018 - by Marcella Giorgou, Heidi tenBroek, Stephanie Peterson
Health and group benefits news and developments in the United States.
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Health and Group Benefits News and Developments, January 2018
10 January 2018 - by Stephanie Peterson, Shyam Kolli, Marcella Giorgou, Elaine Britt
Health and group benefits news and developments in the United States.
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Put healthcare data to work with benchmarking analysis
02 November 2015 - by Marcella Giorgou
Trend and utilization patterns found in data can lead to useful benchmarking for employers.
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Case study: Plan redesign meets not-for-profit organization's goals for an affordable alternative to its traditional defined benefit plan
27 May 2011 - by Marcella Giorgou
Increasing plan costs in recent years, coupled with significant asset losses in 2008 and 2009, led the not for profit organization (Organization) to reevaluate its traditional defined benefit plan (Plan).