Principal
Dr. Frenzen has over 16 years of experience in health care analytics, strategy, and policy in the public health sector. She currently serves as a Principal at Myers and Stauffer. She has extensive experience in state-level rate development initiatives, programmatic and policy-related HCBS waiver work, and complex project management. Dr. Frenzen’s area of specialization lies in program structuring and resource allocation for marginalized patient populations, especially the intellectually and developmentally disabled.
Prior to her role with Myers and Stauffer, Dr. Frenzen served as a Managing Director at CBIZ Optumas, where she oversaw projects for state Medicaid programs, private insurers and health plans, and county-level public health programs. Dr. Frenzen’s expertise in public health and Medicaid financing has positioned her to support clients in making difficult policy and programmatic decisions around rate setting processes and Total Cost of Care (TCOC) analyses. Dr. Frenzen draws on her state-level experience to help clients improve quality and patient outcomes.
Dr. Frenzen’s career has included developing risk-adjusted rates in New York, Nebraska, Alabama, North Dakota, Maryland, West Virginia, and Colorado. Her work in these states has included overseeing calculations of MCO capitation rates under 1115 waivers, carve-out rates, behavioral health rates, and TCOC for accountable care organizations (ACOs), managing budget neutrality parameters, resetting risk adjustment factors, conducting trend analyses, and forecasting. These projects have required the use of multiple data sources, including detailed claims and eligibility data, incomplete encounter data, financial statements, historical cost data, and other publicly available data. Additionally, Dr. Frenzen has extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and highly values the role of qualitative data in health care decision making. Dr. Frenzen’s academic background has positioned her well to use and synthesize multiple data sources to improve processes and outcomes aligned with her clients’ needs.
Dr. Frenzen earned her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from the University of Vermont, and a Master of Science in Health Economics, Policy, and Management from the London School of Economics.
PhD., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
M.Sc., Health Economics, Policy, and Management, London School of Economics
M.B.A., University of Vermont
B.S., Business Administration, University of Vermont
– Population risk assessment.
– Evaluation of program and benefit criteria.
– Stakeholder engagement.
– Resource allocation modeling.
– HCBS Waiver structure and alignment.
– Managed care rate development.
“The effective provision of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) is life changing for some of the most vulnerable families and individuals that our State clients serve. It is a privilege to support these meaningful efforts and an honor to do so as part of Myers and Stauffer, backed by the most talented teams in the industry.”
— Megan Frenzen
