David C. Lewis
Principal
Seattle, WA, US
David Lewis is a principal with the Seattle office of Milliman. He first joined the firm in 1994. After a three-year period with a major insurance company, he rejoined Milliman in 2011.
Experience
David works with payers, providers, employee benefit consultants, and employer groups for private sector, state, and federal entities, including VHA. He has extensive experience evaluating and benchmarking provider reimbursement and contracting, and has developed and/or played a key role in multiple analytical tools, including:
- The Hospital Evaluation and Comparison System (HECS™), RBRVS for Hospitals™, and GlobalRVUs™, which are relative value based-systems for evaluating reimbursement and efficiency
- The Medicare Repricer
- Contract comparison and evaluation systems with emphasis on parity analysis
- Claims mapping and provider discount summarization processes used with most BlueCross BlueShield plans and many other payers
- Systems comparing average provider discounts by payer for employee benefit consultants to use with their clients
David has significant experience and proficiency in the following areas:
- Provider reimbursement benchmarking
- Provider contracting analytics and negotiation support
- Alternative payment methods
- Pricing and rate development
- Episode-based reporting
- ACO development
- Claims mapping and categorization
- Claims repricing
- Capitation development
Education
- BBA, Actuarial Science, Georgia State University
Publications
Read their latest work
Article
Price transparency opportunities for employers
27 August 2024 - by Erica Reijula, Spencer Marshall, Mike Gaal, David C. Lewis
Milliman Transparent can support self-funded employers with analytics based on price transparency data to enhance their benefit offerings and fulfill their obligations as fiduciaries.
Article
Price transparency opportunities for payers
17 October 2023 - by Chris Smith, Spencer Marshall, David C. Lewis
We discuss real-world examples and highlight key questions to show how Milliman Transparent contains the analytics that healthcare payers need to succeed in contracting.
Article
Hospital price transparency data: Case studies for how to use it
03 May 2022 - by Chris Smith, Adam Singleton, David C. Lewis, Brian Allen
Legislation requiring hospitals to publicly post data about negotiated prices for all hospital services unlocks significant potential opportunity for stakeholders working with healthcare strategy and analytics.
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Milliman RBRVS for hospitals
13 April 2022 - by Will Fox, Edward Jhu, Charlie Mills, David C. Lewis, Kevin M. Frodsham
A simple solution: Milliman RBRVS for Hospital Fee Schedule compares key variables such as contractual allowed amounts and billed charge master levels
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Hospital price transparency: December 2021 update
10 December 2021 - by Chris Smith, Joseph Boschert, Mike Gaal, David C. Lewis
The hospital price transparency rule introduces new opportunities and competitive threats in the U.S. healthcare system.
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Hospital price transparency: Data or information?
15 September 2021 - by Erica Reijula, Adam Singleton, Joseph Boschert, Mike Gaal, David C. Lewis
Learn about challenges surrounding hospital price transparency data and if meaningful information exists.
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Hospital price transparency: June 2021 update
22 June 2021 - by Austin Barrington, Joseph Boschert, Mike Gaal, David C. Lewis
Stragglers to the party: Only 61% of providers have posted machine-readable files, and there’s a wide variance of data quality among those reporting.
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Hospital price transparency: March 2021 update
05 April 2021 - by Austin Barrington, Joseph Boschert, Mike Gaal, David C. Lewis
Early days of hospital price transparency: two-thirds of providers have posted key metrics.
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Hospital price transparency–Now what?
24 December 2020 - by John M. Pickering, David C. Lewis, Mike Hamachek, Austin Barrington
What are some of the challenges that exist when it comes to extracting useful competitive information about negotiated payment rates from a machine-readable file?
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The changing landscape of out-of-network reimbursement
19 September 2018 - by David C. Lewis
To avoid unfavorable outcomes, it is important to evaluate the methodology used for setting out-of-network reimbursement levels and to identify savings opportunities.