Jack Mahoney, M.D.
John J. “Jack” Mahoney, M.D., MPH
Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder, Center for Health Value Innovation
John J. “Jack” Mahoney, M.D., is a founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its Chief Medical Officer. In 2008, Dr. Mahoney was named as a Fellow of the Center, along with other prominent health benefits executives and thought leaders who are committed to advancing value-based health design. He is a co-author of the first book from the Center, Leveraging Health: improve health status and bend the trend on financial outcomes with value-based designs.
Dr. Mahoney is a well-respected leader in the value of investing in workforce health, known for his strategic and disruptive thinking and advocacy for change at the person and population level. He is at the forefront of articulating Center policies, advancing the concept that reductions in Rx access are not stand-alone initiatives for driving sustainable cost trend reduction. With his guidance and input, the Center for Health Value Innovation promulgates a leadership position in value-based design, advocating the use of data to drive decisions for investing in modifiable behavior change. Dr. Mahoney is credited with advancing the concept that these activities must be married to condition or disease management and tightly controlled – and that they are tied to a comprehensive communication strategy focused on the goals of the person and aligned with the corporate growth strategy. He advises that goals must be set at the appropriate level and communicated to all the stakeholders – including physicians – in order to generate improved outcomes.
Dr. Mahoney is co-author of two books that analyze the value-based insurance initiative: Total Value Total Return: Seven Rules for Optimizing Employee-Health Benefits for a Healthier and More Productive Workforce (2006) and BeneFIT Design: Seven Steps to Value-Based Health Benefit Decisions (2007). Both books challenge traditional health care benefit plans and strategies, and contribute to the health care industry’s discourse on providing evidence-based benefits and interventions in managing the health of employees.
Currently, Dr. Mahoney serves as a consultant to Pitney Bowes, where he was formerly the company’s Global Health Strategy Director, Chief Medical Officer and a key team leader for its innovative health care programs. His responsibilities included advanced health care planning for employees and benefits planning for employees and retirees. Subsequent to retiring from his full-time position, Dr. Mahoney has assumed the role of Chief Consultant for Strategic Health Initiatives at Pitney Bowes and continues to be active in shaping the company‘s health care programs. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Florida Healthcare Coalition.
Dr. Mahoney formally joined Pitney Bowes in 1997 as Corporate Medical Director and Global Healthcare Management Director after serving as the company’s chief health consultant for several years. During the mid-1990’s he developed the integrated health platform for EAP, behavioral health and clinical health that showed the total improvement when access and affordability were improved. He was instrumental in revamping the company‘s health insurance system and is the architect of the value-based design launched in 2002. At this time, Pitney Bowes became the first company in the country to fully implement the strategy known as value-based insurance design, in which the employer uses financial incentives to encourage workers to stay healthy.
Dr. Mahoney received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his Medical Degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He also received a Masters Degree in Public Health from UCLA.
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