Dale Yamamoto

MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY
Lecturer of Health Enterprise Management

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Dale is the founder and President of Red Quill Consulting, Inc. He has over 30 years of professional actuarial and consulting experience and has been the national health actuarial resource for two major consulting firms (Hewitt Associates and Towers Perrin). Dale has also held positions as the corporate actuary for a Fortune 50 company and as an actuary for two major insurance companies.

He chaired the 2000 Technical Review Panel of three actuaries and three economists appointed by the Medicare Board of Trustees to review the financial methods and assumptions of the Medicare program. Dale has testified before Congress on the topic of health care and Medicare reform. Dale was one of four senior health actuaries who reviewed the Administration’s pricing of the Health Security Act premium estimates for the American Academy of Actuaries. He served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries (2000-2005) and the Board of Directors of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (1999-2005 and 2006-present). Dale has also published several articles on the subject of group benefits, including a textbook (Fundamentals of Retiree Group Benefits), and has delivered speeches at a number of professional actuarial and industry meetings.

Dale is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and an Enrolled Actuary under ERISA. He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska.
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Education
B.S., 1976, Mathmatics, University of Nebraska

Other Professional Experience
President, Red Quill Consulting, Inc., 2008-present
Principal, Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt), 1991-2007
Consultant, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby (now Towers Watson), 1982-1991
Actuary, The Boeing Company, 1979-1982
Actuarial Assistant, SAFECO Life Insurance Company, 1976-1982
Actuarial Student, Bankers Life of Nebraska (now Ameritas), 1975-1976

 
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Health Plan Design and Financing (HEMA-930-B)
This course focuses on the practical aspects of micro and macroeconomics in the structure of employee benefit health insurance programs. Students who successfully complete this course will understand the latest strategies of employee benefit plans to help control health care costs and the impact of health care reform on employer-sponsored insurance programs; learn about the different financing alternatives of benefit programs from complete insurance to self-funding and the techniques used in estimating costs; understand the basics of the Medicare program, its history and delivery of benefits as well as how it is financed; and learn about the various data sources for analyzing health insurance programs including survey data and industry sources as well as the legal constraints of their use (patient protection laws, discrimination rules and tax issues).Prerequisites: None.