
Ellen Harrington
ASA, MAAA
Principal & Consulting Actuary
Boise, ID, US
Ellen Harrington is a principal and consulting actuary with the Boise, Idaho, office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2013.
Experience
Ellen works with a variety of public, multi-employer, and corporate clients. She works primarily with self-funded employee health benefit plans. Her consulting work has included health plan pricing and analysis; experience analysis; setting funding and COBRA rates; estimating liabilities and reserves, including IBNR; benefit design, reporting required by state insurance departments as part of actuarial certifications of self-funded health plans, and Retiree Drug Subsidy attestations.
Professional Designations
- Associate, Society of Actuaries
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
- Licensed Health and Life Insurance Agent
Education
- BA, Mathematics and German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Publications
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Article
Health & Group Benefits Update: 2022 COLAs for Medicare
06 December 2021 - by Robert Schmidt, Ellen Harrington
With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' adjustments, employer benefits with retiree health programs will need to accommodate new limits.
Article
Designing benefits packages that attract and retain employees
30 August 2019 - by Ellen Harrington, Valerie S. Verrecchio
In today’s tight labor market, companies need to look beyond salary in order to attract and retain employees.