Jay is a Vice President and the practice lead for Optum’s Provider Actuarial Services practice. He has worked as a health care actuary for over 25 years and consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies throughout his career. His unique background includes consulting to health systems, ACOs, providers, employers, government and commercial payers across a multitude of business and actuarial issues.

Jay’s more recent consulting engagements include providing Value Based Care (VBC) expertise, developing new transformative payer-provider models, leading Optum’s COVID-19 epidemiological forecasting and financial scenario modeling capabilities and developing strategic growth strategies for health systems. He assists organizations in understanding their changing market dynamics and helps his clients formulate market, product and benefit plan strategies.

Additionally, Jay has worked in the traditional actuarial capacity with providers evaluating risk-based and fee-for-service contracts and with payers performing actuarial activities such as rate certifications, annual reports, provider contracting, plan design impact analyses, reserve estimations and benchmarking analyses.

Jay is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Jay is a frequent speaker at actuarial and ACO events and the co-chair of the Value Based Care Strategic Initiative for the Society of Actuaries.

Contact: (303) 619-2442
Jay.Hazelrigs@Optum.com

Bio posted September 2020

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