Todd Wanta
Todd Wanta is a principal and consulting actuary in the Milwaukee office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2007.
Experience
Todd’s areas of expertise are pharmacy and Medicare Part D, working with nearly all types of stakeholders across both market segments. Key stakeholder types with whom Todd has worked include pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), retail / long-term care (LTC) pharmacies, health plans, and employers. Todd supports these stakeholders by providing analysis-driven strategic advice, guiding product implementations, and helping operationally.
While at Milliman, Todd has assisted many different clients on a wide variety of projects, including:
- Medicare bid strategy and actuarial support, including serving as a certifying actuary
- Employer Group Waiver Plan (EGWP) implementation and operations
- Formulary analysis and decision support, including utilization management evaluation
- Medicare Stars program evaluation and forecasting
Todd remains active in ongoing research, serving as a leader in model development to help clients make formulary decisions and in understanding product pricing related to EGWPs. He also provides traditional actuarial services to clients, such as pricing, reserving, underwriting model evaluation, and clinical program / product assessments.
Prior to Milliman, Todd worked as a software and systems engineer in the defense industry developing / testing algorithms, performing / overseeing simulations, and engaging in the full software development life cycle.
- Wanta, T., Reese, A. “Retiree Drug Plans: Creditable Coverage, EGWP and Changes under the IRA.” Conference of Consulting Actuaries. Feb. 2024.
- Wanta, T., Carioto, J., Maldanado, L. “Walking on Eggshells? Looking at the Past, Present and Future of Employer Group Waiver Plans (EGWPs).” October 2023.
- Wanta, T., Berger, C., Engel, T. “Part D redesign under the Inflation Reduction Act.” August 2023.
- Wanta, T., Blomquist J. “Anticipating Outcomes Based Contracting within LTC Pharmacy.” Managed Healthcare Associates Summit. March 2023.
- Wanta, T., Neu, B, Cavaness, D. “Preparing the Right Prescription for Growth.” Express Scripts Regulated Market Summit. October 2022.
- Wanta, T., Giese, A. “Pharmacy Rebates: A Plan Perspective.” PBMI Annual National Conference. September 2022.
- Wanta, T., Rogers J., Ward, M. “How do you look? Positioning Your Plan in Medicare Plan Finder.” November 2021.
- Wanta, T., Giese, A. “Bid Best Practices.” Express Scripts Regulated Market Summit. October 2019.
- Wanta, T., Sandhoefner, N. “Launching a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.” Society of Actuaries Annual Health Meeting. June 2019.
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
- B.A., Mathematics, Northwestern University
- M.S., Applied Mathematics, Purdue University