Recent Projects
Develop strategic roadmaps for implementing a value-based care employee health plan focused on improving outcomes and reducing costs at a large academic health system.
Lead strategic plan development for a large, multi-billion-dollar international technology company developing an innovative, new value-based health care division. Identified and finalized relationships with Beta sites to test a new product. Developed and advised the implementation of go-to-market value-based care strategies and collateral, including ROI model and target market identification.
Develop organizational assessments and go-to-market plan for several Series B healthcare startups with a focus on product and collateral development.
Provide executive coaching to the leadership team of a Series B healthcare IT company.
Advise several innovative health care product and supply firms in implementing go-to-market plans including the development of a group of prioritized market opportunities.
Past Projects
Advised, facilitated, and developed value-based payment agreements between health plans and health systems.
Completed over 20 two-sided risk assessments and developed action plans for several hospitals and health systems to build new value-based payment arrangements.
Led over 50 population health readiness assessments and roadmaps for hospitals and health systems to implement value-based care models and value-based payment arrangements.
Served as an ACO expert advising CMMI on the Pioneer and Next Generation ACO programs.
Partnered with over 20 organizations in applying and successfully implementing Medicare ACOs.
Designed, developed, and successfully implemented an ACO performance measurement and improvement system; used benchmarks and best practices from over 70 ACOs with over 2 million Medicare beneficiaries leveraging claims data and quality reporting.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Joseph F. Damore and Ashish V. Shah, “Are ACOs and Home Services the Path to Health Equity?”, Healthcare Innovation, June 2022
Joseph F. Damore, “Managing Post-Acute Care: A Critical Success Factor for ACOs”, Dina Thought Leadership Blog, April 2022
Joseph F. Damore, “Population Health Management Consulting”, Chapter 15 in “Pathways to a Successful Accountable Care Organization”, Edited by Peter A. Gross, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Joseph F. Damore, “Building the Foundation for a Successful Medicare Shared Savings Program”, Journal of Healthcare Management, November 2015, Volume 60 - Issue 6 - p 390-394
Joseph F. Damore and Wesley Champion, "Key Success Factors for the Medicare Shared Savings Program", Health Affairs Blog, August 21, 2014
Joseph F. Damore et al., “Accountable Care Strategies: Lessons from the Premier Health Care Alliance's Accountable Care Collaborative,” The Commonwealth Fund, August 2012