Brian Ball

Brian Ball is a Senior Vice President with Kaufman Hall’s Financial Planning practice, providing strategic and financial support to health systems, physician groups, payers, and healthcare vendors.

Brian’s expertise and recent experience includes providing financial planning support for health systems, facilitating partnerships between payers and providers, advising health systems as they enter value-based care arrangements, improving financial performance in government lines of business, and designing behavioral health and FQHC partnership strategies for providers.

Before joining Kaufman Hall, Brian was a Director with COPE Health Solutions, where he advised health systems and payers on population health and value-based payment models. He helped clients project the financial impact of moving to value-based payment, analyzed claims data to identify opportunities for utilization reduction, and created clinical programs and network strategies to help clients succeed in risk-based arrangements. Brian’s previous titles at COPE Health included Manager and Senior Consultant. He also served as a Project Manager with Zynx Health, a clinical decision support technology company.

Brian earned a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Political Science, both from the University of Southern California.