AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Building and developing integrated health systems, implementing Value-Based Care and payment arrangements, ACOs, provider-sponsered health plans, health care management, healthcare finance,   ​

ORGANIZATION TYPES:

​​​Hospitals, health systems, non-profit healthcare organizations.

Joe Damore
Partner

Joe is the Founder and President of Damore Health Advisors.  He is a nationally recognized expert on health reform, value-based care and payment, and has published numerous articles on health care management, finance, delivery, and value-based care and payment. 

Previously, Joe served as Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Population Health (SIPH) at Premier, Inc. from 2011-2020, a $35 million business unit responsible for assisting physician groups, hospitals and health systems, health plans, and integrated health systems in implementing value-based care and payment arrangements, including Accountable Care Organizations.  His responsibilities included leading Premier's 80 person SIPH team in providing collaborative, technology, and advisory services to over 100 health care organizations in areas such as strategic business planning, clinical integration, new value-based care and payer arrangements, quality and financial improvement, and implementation of value-based care capabilities in more than 200 markets across the United States.  Joe led the development of the first claims-based ACO benchmarking and performance improvement tool used by ACOs covering nearly 2 million Medicare lives, enabling the majority of ACO members to outperform their national peers by nearly 50% in shared savings.  Prior to joining Premier, Joe served as the President and CEO of Mission Health System, a $1 billion integrated delivery system in Asheville, NC from 2004 to 2010 and CEO of Sparrow Health System, a $1 billion health system in Lansing, MI from 1990 to 2004.  He also served in leadership positions with the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, SC (now Prisma Health) as Vice President and the Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation (now Trinity Health as Executive Vice President.

Joe's entire career as a health care leader has focused on building and developing regional integrated health systems, including integrating comprehensive delivery systems and health plans as well as building and expanding several successful provider-sponsored health plans. ​​
Joe resides in the Washington DC area.