This Week in Accountable Care with William DeMarco

On the Wednesday, January 4th 2011 program at 11AM Pacific and 1PM Central Time, my special guest commentator is noted author, speaker and consultant William DeMarco, see: http://www.pendulumhealth.com/.

 

DeMarco is the President & CEO of DeMarco & Associates, Inc., a national, independent healthcare consulting firm specializing in healthcare delivery system redesign and transformation. Recognized as a leader in the research , design and implementation of community based healthplans since his involvement in several startup health plans in Minnesota in the early 1970s

 

Bill and his team of management consultants clinical specialists and reimbursement analysts have assisted employers and physicians in developing better relationships with insurers up to and including developing local solutions to deliver and finance care. Using Health Services Research from its affiliate Pendulum HealthCare Development Corporation, DeMarco and Associates assists both provider and employer clients in addressing prospective payment approaches in order to build Pay for Performance models to develop direct employer/provider contracting entities, benchmarking collaboratives.

 

DeMarco has just published the timely release of 'Performance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships'. We'll discuss this and more in the health care reform and provider managed competition theater.