François de Brantes has spent close to two decades working to transform the U.S. healthcare system by improving incentives for providers and consumers in order to encourage value-based decisions.
As Senior Partner of the HCV Incentives Advisory Group, François leverages his decades of expertise to help provider, payer and employer-focused organizations achieve their goals of achieving measurable change in the system and improving outcomes for all Americans. He currently advises the State of Colorado Medicaid agency on the design and implementation of several primary and specialty care payment models. He also supports XO Health, a health plan for self-insured employers, in designing, implementing and fully operationalizing a set of advanced payment models for primary and specialty care as well as facilities.
Before founding HVCI, François was Senior Vice President of Episodes of Care at Signify Health where he led customer development of the Medicare Advantage, Self-Insured Employer, and Commercial Payer markets. In his role, he has led most of the thought leadership activity at Signify, contributing to published papers, and several reports to Medicare’s Innovation Center on existing and future bundled payment programs
François built his knowledge and expertise in payment models and incentives while serving as Vice President of Altarum, a national nonprofit, and from 2006 to 2016, as Executive Director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3), a not-for-profit company that designed programs to motivate physicians and hospitals to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare delivery. The organization, which merged with Altarum in December 2017, was responsible for creating and implementing the nationally recognized and adopted Bridges to Excellence (BTE) and PROMETHEUS Payment programs.
Prior to HCI3, François was Chief Operating Officer of the eHealth Initiative (eHI), which promotes adoption of health information technology in the U.S. He led the development of eHI’s HIE Value and Sustainability Model, a method to value services offered by Health Information Exchanges. Early in his career working in General Electric’s corporate health care department, he was involved in many strategic programs that created, connected and supported Active Consumers, and defined market mechanisms to reward providers for better performance.
François holds a master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He lectures at the Harvard School of Public Health and has been widely published on payment models in peer-reviewed journals.
