Medicare Advantage—an Overview and Personal Perspective

Sessions: Medicare Advantage—an Overview and Personal Perspective
Speaker: Kristina B. Norton, ASA, MAAA

PLEASE FIND PRESENTATION HERE: MedicareOverviewandPuertoRico_Norton_20160323

Since the Social Security Act was amended in 1965 to establish Medicare, Medicare has been the primary funding vehicle and benefit program providing health care coverage for Americans over age 65. This session provides an overview of the program’s history as well as the general terms of a health plan’s participation in today’s Medicare Advantage program. The latter half of the session will focus on the presenter’s unique experience of working in Medicare Advantage in a US territory since 2006, soon after Medicare Part D was established.

Kristina B. Norton has over twenty years of actuarial experience. In the early years of her career she served single employer and multi-employer retirement plan clients as part of a team within distinguished consulting firms. More recently she has concentrated on supporting the Medicare Advantage business for her health plan employers. She has served as the Chief Actuary and Appointed Actuary for 2014 for a Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage organization. She currently leads a team of actuaries in support of the Medicare Advantage business for a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer in the Chicago area.

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