Mr. Bachler is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman's Health Practice in the Seattle office. He joined the firm in 2008.
Mr. Bachler is responsible for managing a wide variety of client relationships, projects, and products. His clients include insurance companies, managed care organizations, state government agencies, and reinsurers. Mr. Bachler has worked on projects that include pricing, reserving, financial reporting, product development, underwriting, predictive modeling, disease management program evaluation, provider network evaluation, underwriting software development, feasibility studies, and constructing risk sharing arrangements. He also has experience with group medical, individual major medical, dental, Medicare, Medicaid, specific and aggregate stop-loss, and various types of reinsurance.
Prior to joining Milliman, Mr. Bachler spent 8 years at Munich Re America HealthCare, one of the leading health reinsurers in the US marketplace. His main responsibilities there included pricing of various reinsurance products such as health maintenance organization reinsurance, excess reinsurance, and employer stop-loss. Mr. Bachler also was responsible for the development, modeling, and ongoing evaluation of many nonstandard risk and reinsurance arrangements. Prior to his time at Munich, he was vice president, actuarial, at Educators Mutual Insurance Association.
Mr. Bachler is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).