Full Name
Dianne Munevar
Job Title
Senior Director
Company
NORC
Speaker Bio
Dianne Munevar is a senior director of Business Ventures and Innovation at NORC with over 12 years of experience in health care policy, strategy and analytics, and product development. In her role, she works to leverage the depth and breadth of NORC’s diverse social sciences expertise and research assets to help health care clients meet their business objectives. Munevar also manages NORC’s corporate innovation programs including all strategic and tactical investments, NORC Labs Venture Fund, and the NORC Incubator.
Most recently, Dianne was director of innovation with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) in Chicago. BCBSA is the national association of 36 independent, community-based, and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. As director of innovation, Dianne led the Care Management Accelerator that consisted of over 30 Blues Plans interested in sharing innovative “best practices” for managing members with chronic conditions. Dianne worked closely with the Blues Plans to identify potential opportunities to pilot with a subset of plans, and then collaborated cross-functionally with the Health of America (HoA), Consumer Experience, and Blue Distinction teams, among others, to determine how to best scale new programs and technologies across the network. While at BCBSA, Dianne focused on programs that improved consumer engagement, customer experience, and health outcomes for members with diabetes, pre-diabetes, behavioral health issues, and musculoskeletal diseases.
Prior to joining BCBSA, Munevar was the vice president of Accountable Care for Attuned Care, an organization that coordinated primary care, home health, and hospice for people in senior living communities. In her role, Munevar helped Attuned Care win the primary care contract for Sunrise Advantage, a Medicare Advantage (MA) Plan, led the data analytics function, and managed the quality and compliance teams.
Prior to Attuned Care, Dianne worked for 7 years in health care consulting as a director of data analytics and development at Avalere Health, where she delivered policy and strategic support to health plans, provider organizations, and patient advocacy groups, as well as led and managed the subcontract to evaluate the Medicare Pioneer ACO Program. At Avalere, she focused on delivering analyses to help health care organizations better understand their value relative to competitors, identify opportunities for program improvement, and analyze the impact of changes in policy and regulations on organizations’ financial performance. Dianne also spent three years at RTI as a Health services researcher where she worked on the Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration for The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as well as other demonstrations and evaluations for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Munevar graduated from Colgate University with a degree in International Relations and Latin American Studies, and graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Master in Public Policy, with a focus on social policy and quantitative methods.
Most recently, Dianne was director of innovation with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) in Chicago. BCBSA is the national association of 36 independent, community-based, and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. As director of innovation, Dianne led the Care Management Accelerator that consisted of over 30 Blues Plans interested in sharing innovative “best practices” for managing members with chronic conditions. Dianne worked closely with the Blues Plans to identify potential opportunities to pilot with a subset of plans, and then collaborated cross-functionally with the Health of America (HoA), Consumer Experience, and Blue Distinction teams, among others, to determine how to best scale new programs and technologies across the network. While at BCBSA, Dianne focused on programs that improved consumer engagement, customer experience, and health outcomes for members with diabetes, pre-diabetes, behavioral health issues, and musculoskeletal diseases.
Prior to joining BCBSA, Munevar was the vice president of Accountable Care for Attuned Care, an organization that coordinated primary care, home health, and hospice for people in senior living communities. In her role, Munevar helped Attuned Care win the primary care contract for Sunrise Advantage, a Medicare Advantage (MA) Plan, led the data analytics function, and managed the quality and compliance teams.
Prior to Attuned Care, Dianne worked for 7 years in health care consulting as a director of data analytics and development at Avalere Health, where she delivered policy and strategic support to health plans, provider organizations, and patient advocacy groups, as well as led and managed the subcontract to evaluate the Medicare Pioneer ACO Program. At Avalere, she focused on delivering analyses to help health care organizations better understand their value relative to competitors, identify opportunities for program improvement, and analyze the impact of changes in policy and regulations on organizations’ financial performance. Dianne also spent three years at RTI as a Health services researcher where she worked on the Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration for The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as well as other demonstrations and evaluations for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Munevar graduated from Colgate University with a degree in International Relations and Latin American Studies, and graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Master in Public Policy, with a focus on social policy and quantitative methods.
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