Jason Knoespel

About Jason Knoespel

I am a customer-centric healthcare analytics leader directing global enterprise and client analytics teams, aligning performance strategy to growth, retention, and ROI outcomes. I advise national and regional payers on improving clinical and financial performance through complex-condition management and streamlining health plan operations.Across the full commercial lifecycle, I lead solution design, pricing strategy, and executive value storytelling, and I scale performance management infrastructure using leading indicators and actuarially grounded savings methodologies. I translate descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics into execution through leading-indicator dashboards, and drive performance governance with clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders.Selected wins: • Mitigated $10M+ in annual financial risk exposure across oncology, cardiology, MSK, and imaging programs • Expanded services revenue by $10M+ by launching a pilot Analytics as a Service (AaaS) program to improve care and reduce total cost of care • Helped secure four contract renewals across two of the company’s most strategically important clients • Drove performance excellence that earned client investment to scale my team from 2 to 17 • Spearheaded a global delivery model to extend customer support to 20+ hours/day and drive margin lift

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Evolent

   Jul 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Responsible for analytics strategy for large national payer client operating in 39 states that contributes significant annual revenue.• Establish ROI performance governance model through the use of leading indicator dashboards, actuarially sound methodologies, and cross functional collaboration with clinical and operational stakeholders.• Secure key client contract renewal in year one of team\'s existence across our core specialty services suite (oncology, MSK, cardiology).• Cut budgeted annual fee paybacks by >$10M in first six months of dedicated team, materially improving company EBITDA, through proactive and tactical performance management.• Led a U.S.(80%)/ India (20%) enterprise Client Analytics organization aimed at scaling, scoping, and delivering against a significant company transformation amid employee attrition, platform migrations, and reimagining our analytical value framework. Responsible for leading the effort to shift analytical domain expertise from administrative to complex condition management services solutions.• Spearheaded offshore model to drive margin lift, which resulted in the transitioning 89% of recurring and 80% of ad hoc deliverables within 15 months.

Education

• DePaul Driehaus College of Business

  Master of Science (M.S.), Economic Business & Policy Analysis

  2012 — 2014

• DePaul University

  Bachelor of Arts, Economics (with Honors) and Political Science

  2009 — 2012