DeMarco and Associates celebrates 23 years of operation as a specialized independent and objective source of health care management, marketing and strategy advisory services.

Re-engineering Health Care Performance at the Community Level

If all health care is local, then what should be our strategy in the new post Medicare reform environment?

Should delivery system medical quality management be a core competency at our health system or should we continue to rely on insurers to define quality?

How can hospitals, physicians and employers work more effectively together?

Are employers ready for performance based contracting directly with local physician and hospitals?

As an employer am I purchasing benefits or managing benefits?

As facilitators of organizational change and strategy development within physician-driven organizations, managed care enterprises, and as advisors to integrated delivery systems, employers and employer coalitions our team of consultants at DeMarco & Associates believes that the most important product we offer is to bring about permanent and successful organizational change.

As facilitators of organizational change and strategy development within physician-driven organizations, managed care enterprises, and as advisors to integrated delivery systems, employers and employer coalitions our team of consultants at DeMarco & Associates believes that the most important product we offer is to bring about permanent and successful organizational change.

Through a disciplined evaluation of corporate goals and strategies clients are rewarded with growth.

To build mutual trust between employers and providers there needs to be a method to evaluate , measure and improve the value of care offered in the local region.

Local employers and physicians self reliance is based on local culture, capability and a realistic appraisal of local resources. patient need is best met when long term strategies replace quick fixes in this complex area of health care .

We see this exchange of value between purchaser and provider and between physician and health system and between managed care insurer and purchaser to actually build self reliance by seeing the vision of an organized delivery system that fosters innovation and creativity.  [More...]

The future opportunity for growth in healthcare is to build new platforms of value exchange, new specialized relationships focused on coordination of quality and virtual organizations. Many of these strategies are created  through a combination of existing and new relationships. Click below to learn more about how DeMarco & Associates works with each of the stakeholders involved in these virtual organizations in a variety of ways.

• Physician Driven Organizations
• Employers
• Integrated Delivery Systems and Community-based Health Plans

DeMarco & Associates believes that these relationships will be forged successfully by these stakeholders, especially physicians, driving integration at the local level applying the core competencies of managed care.