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Jeffrey Criswell

Vestavia

Summary

Served 8 plus years in healthcare insurance, specifically Medicare Advantage and Medicare Shared Savings Program. Became proficient in researching and creating solutions to improve medical expense and utilization. Subject matter expert for CMS payment and reimbursement. Drove and lead multiple projects for medical cost improvement across a cross-matrixed environment.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analytics Senior Advisor

Cigna
06.2022 - Current

Specialization in medical trend analysis to drive performance improvements across multiple markets experiencing $2B+ in total spend

  • Primary lead for multiple cross-matrixed projects to improve, implement, and create medical cost savings initiatives.
    Found and recovered $1M+ in claim cost savings.
  • Recommended and aided in an enterprise wide approach to avoid a $40M+ risk to the business.
  • Developed and trained current team on understanding CMS reimbursement, medical cost trend analytics, and medical cost solutions.
  • Collaborated with multiple teams to innovate program initiatives to improve the health of certain cohorts with specific comorbidities.
  • Partnered with contracting and FP&A departments across the enterprise to develop forecasts related to CMS reimbursement changes.
  • Provided crucial presentations on utilization trends to medical directors and health service leads to give valuable insight on risk adverse members.

Senior Consultant

Dixon Hughes Goodman
12.2021 - 05.2022
  • Lead data and analytics consultant for 20+ Medicare ACOs.
  • Create scopes of work and client recommendations for ACOs that drove solutions and success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
  • Project lead for a Managed Services Organization where I successfully created, wrote, and developed their application for ACO Reach that was accepted by the Center of Medicare/Medicaid Innovations.

Business Analytics Advisor

Cigna
11.2019 - 12.2021

Financial Analysis Lead Analyst

Cigna
10.2016 - 11.2019

Education

MBA - Finance Concentration, GPA 3.8/4.0

University of North Alabama
Florence, AL
05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Health Sciences

Samford University
Birmingham, AL
05.2016

Skills

  • Stakeholder advising including executive leadership teams, medical directors, and business finance officers on medical cost and utilization trend improvement
  • Team development and training to understand the healthcare delivery system
  • Value based deal modeling to ensure incentives align for health plan and provider
  • Cleansing, Synthesizing, and Modeling data the create actionable insight
  • Teradata SQL, Microsoft SQL, Tableau, Alteryx, and Python

Timeline

Business Analytics Senior Advisor

Cigna
06.2022 - Current

Senior Consultant

Dixon Hughes Goodman
12.2021 - 05.2022

Business Analytics Advisor

Cigna
11.2019 - 12.2021

Financial Analysis Lead Analyst

Cigna
10.2016 - 11.2019

MBA - Finance Concentration, GPA 3.8/4.0

University of North Alabama

Bachelor of Science - Health Sciences

Samford University
Jeffrey Criswell