William J DeMarco MA CMC
Keynote Speaker, Thought Leader, Author
William (Bill) DeMarco is President of DeMarco and Associates and regularly addresses large and small audiences of health care executives, physician executives and purchasers of health care who are interested in developing better relationships to improve care for their community of patients and employees.
Why Bill DeMarco
As a Keynote Speaker Bill has a strong message of integration of providers with their community. As our fragmented delivery system creates more frustration for consumers, he offers some quick options to improve patient engagement using Social Determents of Care. Unlike other speakers who talk and fly out immediately after their speech, Bill often remains after his talk to listen to other speakers and talk with client representatives and audience members who are curious and have questions. He believes this feedback makes him a better speaker and grounds him with the reality that each audience feels.
Often referred to as a thought leader and a man ahead of his time, he has accurately predicted changes happening at the local level that will turn into trends and industry standards far ahead of the industry at large. Borrowing from other industries’ examples of consumer driven behaviors, he speaks about the need for a consumer centric health care delivery system.
He makes his forty years of experience with innovation of community based health plans, building provider employer benchmarking consortiums, and creating fundamental change of attitude between third parties and providers refreshing and the audience start thinking in a positive and often times new direction.
He has spoken to national audiences and international audiences on 4 continents. Key areas of interest have included Patient Engagement, Reimbursement, Quality Management, Health reform and government policy as well as Organizational Development, Corporate lifecycles and provider led health enterprises including PHOs, ACOs and health plans. He is often quoted in the national press and is on the editorial board of several newsletters and advisor to trade associations.
Bill has over 200 articles and 7 books he has shared with audiences over the past 40 years. His latest books include Performance Based Medicine, creating high performance networks to optimize managed care relationships, (CRC Press); Physician Driven Health Plans: Innovative Strategies for Restoring Physician-Community Integration (McGraw Hill); Advanced IPA management: Direct Contracting (McGraw Hill 1999); Advanced IPA Management: Opportunities for IPAs under the New Medicare (McGraw Hill 1999); Medicare Strategy (Interstudy Publications 1996); and Going Prepaid, a strategic planning decision (MGMA press 1994).
More about Bill
As a consultant Bill has helped hundreds of physicians and hospitals to work more effectively with third party managed care and direct contracting with employers. He has brought together separate independent physicians into health networks operating as contracting arms for each practice but also creating Management Services Organizations (MSOs) to run these enterprises successfully as a “clinic without walls”. His ability to help clients see a new and compelling vision for their organization in the face of dramatic marketplace changes and shrinking revenues has earned him a national reputation as a researcher and implementer of strategic change that is sustainable and custom designed for the marketplace.
Working with employers he has offered support in developing Direct Contracting strategies, creating high performance panels, and building coalitions of purchasers to contract with physicians and hospitals directly.
Background on Bill DeMarco
Prior to founding DeMarco and Associates Bill was one of ten people who participated in the creation of SHARE HEALTH PLAN in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1974, and served as Executive Director of Clinicare Health Plan in Rockford, Illinois in 1980.
Bill has worked as a part-time faculty member for Loyola University Law School’s LLM program. In addition, as visiting instructor at several universities including DePaul University MBA program, University of Chicago Business School, and others, he was asked to present on entrepreneurship, managed care futures, capitation and opportunities in applying banking business principles to health care.
He received his BA degree from Hamline University and a Master’s Degree from DePaul University and is a certified Management Consultant in good standing with the Institute of Management Consultants.
In addition he was an advisor in the startup of the National Association of PPOs, The National Association of Managed Care Physicians, The National Association of ACOs, and has been a regular speaker for HFMA, MGMA, AHA and similar associations.
Our message is that of integrating the community with health care institutions and physicians to build a better local delivery system that can sustain itself and grow by meeting local needs of employers and consumers.
Speaking Topics
While managed care and the many aspects of population health have matured into a new industry following the value based contracting goals we see in our work that several areas need further work to make Valued Based contracting become successful.
They include our topics such as:
PATIENT ENGAGEMENT- SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF CARE
- RISK SCORE MANAGEMENT
- QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
In addition, we see several new strategies playing out
- Provider Led HEALTH PLANS
- ACO development of EMPLOYER DIRECT CONTRACTING
- CONVERSION OF ACO TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE
- ACO MERGER AND AQUISTION to develop REGIONAL CARE SYSTEMS
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