Michael Joseph, M.B.A.
Senior Consultant

Michael´s projects with Bailit have included work in the areas of reimbursement methodology, market analysis, HMO performance evaluation and scorecard development. For example, Michael played an instrumental role in the design of a new reimbursement system for group residential services for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, analyzing service and financial data in order to develop and refine a new rate formula.

Michael has also assisted state agencies with the analysis of HMO data and the development of HMO performance management strategies. For the state of Vermont, Michael has analyzed plan data filings and identified key trends and opportunities for improvement. For the state of California, Michael has built a statistical algorithm to assign enrollees to HMOs based on performance measures. For the Community Health Councils Inc., Michael developed a scorecard to highlight disparities between two communities in Los Angeles in terms of health care and environment. He made recommendations as to the measures to be included and presented options for how the data could be graphically displayed.

Before joining Bailit, Michael was a consultant providing market analysis to the information technology industry. He has worked at technology market research firms International Data Corporation and AMR Research where he delivered analysis of the enterprise software market, and at several technology companies where he held positions in product marketing and field support.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College, and an M.B.A. from The FW Olin School of Management at Babson College.

Published Articles

Bailit Health Purchasing (Bailit MH and Joseph MS). "Purchaser Guide to Value-Driven Health Care" Partnership for Value-driven Health Care, February 2007.

Bailit Health Purchasing (Bailit MH, Dyer MB, Joseph MS). &Incentives and Rewards Best Practices Primer: Lessons Learned From Early Pilots" The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC, July 2006.