Madeleine Biondolillo, MD

As a Vice President in Premier’s Performance Services team since 2016, Dr. Biondolillo is responsible for strategic quality and population health initiatives to support members in value-based healthcare delivery and improvement. She has a proven track record of building long-term partnerships with providers and industry stakeholders in both public and private healthcare organizations. A healthcare quality and safety expert, she leads Premier’s 500-member Hospital Innovation and Improvement Network (HIIN) – a national quality collaborative.

Dr. Biondolillo is an academic physician executive with extensive management experience in ambulatory and hospital clinical operations in one of Harvard’s health systems. Her background and expertise includes public health, population health management, inpatient and outpatient quality/safety, and performance improvement. She previously served as Vice President of Population Health Management at the Connecticut Hospital Association where she directed the development and implementation of state and federal innovation efforts. Prior to that she supported the design of population health strategy at a Pioneer ACO founded by her Academic Health System. Dr. Biondolillo was CEO of the Urban Medical Group, a large ambulatory practice affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, which specialized in adult medicine especially complex care and geriatrics. She served for four years as Associate Commissioner of the MA Department of Public Health, overseeing quality and safety as well as policy development related to the ACA and state health reform. Among her research initiatives, Dr. Biondolillo has served as Principal Investigator on a $3M Ambulatory Quality and Safety grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She serves as faculty for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Complex Care initiative and on the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Award Committee.

A graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Biondolillo trained at MetroWest Medical Center and New England Medical Center in Boston and practiced primary care adult medicine for over 15 years in hospital, ambulatory, and post-acute (Skilled Nursing Facility, Rehabilitation and home) settings.