Jill A. Bruckert

FSA, MAAA

Principal and Consulting Actuary

Brookfield, WI, US

Jill Bruckert is a principal and consulting actuary with the Milwaukee office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2007.

Experience

Jill’s areas of expertise include managed healthcare programs, including Medicaid and Long Term Care (LTC) insurance.

Examples of recent projects include:

Calculating and certifying actuarially sound capitation rates for the managed Medicaid LTC populations
Calculating and certifying actuarially sound capitation rates for acute care services for SSI, Pregnant Women, TANF, Newborn, and other high-cost populations for managed Medicaid populations
Developing and implementing risk adjustment processes for acute care and managed LTC Medicaid populations
Developing Medicaid cost projections for purposes of creating fiscal year budgets and state appropriations
Reviewing Medicaid capitation rates on behalf of Medicaid managed care organizations, health plan associations, and other state agencies
Developing Medicaid HCBS and behavioral health fee schedules
Modeling and evaluating various reform strategies to provide coverage for future LTC needs in the United States
Evaluating the adequacy of active life reserves and claim reserves for LTC insurance companies
Assisting LTC insurance companies to file rate increases, including conducting morbidity and persistency experience analyses, projecting future experience, calculating needed rate increase amounts, and completing filing materials
Assisting LTC insurance companies with their annual Statement of Actuarial Opinion regarding their statutory liabilities

Publications and Presentations

Co-Author, Review of FY 2024 Texas Medicaid Managed Care Capitation Rate Development Process. SAO Report No. 24-001, September 2023.
Co-Author, Review of FY 2023 Texas Medicaid Managed Care Capitation Rate Development Process. SAO Report No. 22-042, August 2023.
Co-Author, Long-Term Care Focus: Q4 2022. Milliman Insight, February 2022.

Professional Designations

Education

Publications

Article

28 March 2025 - by Jason Karcher, Jill A. Bruckert, Mac (Jianbin) Xu

With potential cuts to Medicaid/CHIP federal funding, we present the implications for the federal matching rate landscape and the impact to states.

Article

16 February 2023 - by Juliet Spector, Annie Gunnlaugsson, Jill A. Bruckert, Natalie Seiler, Jeremy Hamilton

This Long-Term Care (LTC) Focus newsletter showcases the projects that Milliman LTC consultants are working on now.

Article

01 February 2022 - by Jill A. Bruckert, Annie P Hallum, Davis Burge

We illustrate potential short-term and long-term savings opportunities, including fee-for-service and managed care.

Experience

Jill’s areas of expertise include managed healthcare programs, including Medicaid and Long Term Care (LTC) insurance.

Examples of recent projects include:

Calculating and certifying actuarially sound capitation rates for the managed Medicaid LTC populations
Calculating and certifying actuarially sound capitation rates for acute care services for SSI, Pregnant Women, TANF, Newborn, and other high-cost populations for managed Medicaid populations
Developing and implementing risk adjustment processes for acute care and managed LTC Medicaid populations
Developing Medicaid cost projections for purposes of creating fiscal year budgets and state appropriations
Reviewing Medicaid capitation rates on behalf of Medicaid managed care organizations, health plan associations, and other state agencies
Developing Medicaid HCBS and behavioral health fee schedules
Modeling and evaluating various reform strategies to provide coverage for future LTC needs in the United States
Evaluating the adequacy of active life reserves and claim reserves for LTC insurance companies
Assisting LTC insurance companies to file rate increases, including conducting morbidity and persistency experience analyses, projecting future experience, calculating needed rate increase amounts, and completing filing materials
Assisting LTC insurance companies with their annual Statement of Actuarial Opinion regarding their statutory liabilities