Dale Skinner

Analytics Engineering Director

Seattle, WA, US

Dale Skinner is a senior information technology consultant with Milliman's Technology and Operations Solutions (TOPS) Practice in Seattle, Washington. He joined the firm in 2001.

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Experience

Dale has over 15 years of experience in healthcare data-centric system design and development. During this time he has served as a developer, and often the lead developer, on a variety of different types of projects:

Design and development of rating systems
Deployment, customization, maintenance, and management of over a dozen implementations of MedInsight (Milliman’s data warehousing product)
Design and implementation of custom data marts
Design, development, and maintenance of various types of code making up our proprietary Claim Audit tool set
Development of web services used to programmatically interact with Milliman web-based systems

Dale is also an accomplished technical writer, often called upon to author requirements documents, functional and technical specifications, user guides, maintenance manuals, training materials, and technical system documentation. He also has extensive experience as a data analyst, having worked on a range of claims analysis projects for a variety of clients. He has a particular aptitude for identifying data quality issues in claims and enrollment data sets, clearly communicating them to clients, and then working with the client to resolve the issues. He has served as the data processing lead on a number of claims analysis projects.

Dale brings expertise in a vast array of Microsoft, open source, and other proprietary technologies to his projects:

SQL Server 2008 and later
Development with C# and the .NET framework
Various scripting languages (Python, Ruby, VBScript, and PowerShell)
Microsoft office development, with particular expertise in Excel VBA
XML generation, parsing, and processing
Object-oriented system design
The Windows and OS X/macOS operating systems.

Publications and Presentations

Negatively Pinched 3-Manifolds Admit Hyperbolic Metrics. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 129, No. 10 (Oct., 2001) 3069-3077.
Boundary Regularity of Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics. Journal of Differential Geometry, 69 (2005) 111-136.

Education

BS, Mathematics, University of Oregon (Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude).
MS, Mathematics, University of Washington.

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Publications

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Patterns in cost and utilization of cardiac diagnostic procedures and cardiovascular events

15 December 2022 - by Melody Craff, Michael Hadfield, Rachel Beaton, Dale Skinner

This report summarizes cost and patterns of cardiovascular events and treatments based on analysis of the Milliman MedInsight nationwide Emerging Experience research database spanning January 2017 to December 2021.

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Health and hurricanes, studying disparate health impact of extreme climate events, 2017-2020

03 March 2022 - by Cody Webb, Melody Craff, Molly Barth, Larry Baeder, Dale Skinner, Thomas Pu

Carbon dioxide poisoning found consistently among populations affected by four hurricanes points to how climate events can have other health effects.

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Insights into cost patterns and actionable factors in newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes

03 January 2022 - by Melody Craff, Austin Barrington, Thomas Pu, Dale Skinner, Michael Hadfield

While people with a higher BMI at the diagnosis of T2D points to greater healthcare cost increases, weight management appears to help mitigate the rise in expenses.

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Frameworks and considerations for COVID-19 related analyses

21 April 2020 - by Melody Craff, Dale Skinner, David Mirkin, Francesca Hammerstrom, Will Fox

This Milliman MedInsight brief provides an analytic guide to assist healthcare organizations with COVID-19 pandemic analytics.

Experience

Design and development of rating systems
Deployment, customization, maintenance, and management of over a dozen implementations of MedInsight (Milliman’s data warehousing product)
Design and implementation of custom data marts
Design, development, and maintenance of various types of code making up our proprietary Claim Audit tool set
Development of web services used to programmatically interact with Milliman web-based systems

Dale brings expertise in a vast array of Microsoft, open source, and other proprietary technologies to his projects:

SQL Server 2008 and later
Development with C# and the .NET framework
Various scripting languages (Python, Ruby, VBScript, and PowerShell)
Microsoft office development, with particular expertise in Excel VBA
XML generation, parsing, and processing
Object-oriented system design
The Windows and OS X/macOS operating systems.

Dale Skinner

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Read their latest work

Patterns in cost and utilization of cardiac diagnostic procedures and cardiovascular events

Health and hurricanes, studying disparate health impact of extreme climate events, 2017-2020

Insights into cost patterns and actionable factors in newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes

Frameworks and considerations for COVID-19 related analyses

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