Over the years, we've grown AskMariaTodd™ into one of the world's prominent healthcare industry consulting firms with a global distribution of talent across six continents.

Our collection of healthcare industry experts and thought leaders are called upon to assist in a variety of public and private niche projects and initiatives coordinated through our central office. At AskMariaTodd, consultants are not "employed", but instead each independent contractor with whom I work is vetted and privileged by the others in the group to practice among us.  Between us, we've delivered tens of thousands of professional seminars and educational programs, and produced over 40 best-selling industry trade reference books published by renowned professional and technical publishers.

True mastery also encompasses the humility to listen and the studiousness to always learn and question.

The Art of Medicine can be summed up into four principles: Mastery. Individuality. Humanity. Morality.  Physicians develop expertise, not just experience; wisdom over knowledge, creativity and critical thinking, and they assume risk and stand accountable every day.  These qualities resonate with us. We understand what drives them, we appreciate their humanity, and celebrate their individuality.

"The days of healthcare business as usual are over!"  -- Maria K Todd, MHA PhD

Throughout the world, hospitals and government healthcare authorities are recognizing the need to replace aging facilities built more than forty years ago. At the same time, shifts not only in  population but in openness to consider alternative care delivery options have sparked a need for hospital executives and governing boards to hone leadership skills and prepare for the roller coaster of changes ahead in vision, strategy, finance, care delivery, structural and technology design, people, and culture.

Ancillary healthcare providers are the gears that maintain continuity in healthcare delivery between routine primary care and acute inpatient care.

Ancillary healthcare services include a broad array of services that supplement or support the care provided by hospitals and physicians, including laboratories, dialysis centers, free-standing diagnostic, non-hospital surgery centers, as well as durable medical equipment such as orthotics and prosthetics, and others.  The ancillary healthcare services market is estimated at $574 billion, and has grown to 30% of total national health expenditures.

For the thousands of ancillary healthcare organizations in the USA and abroad, few consultants have the expertise to offer guidance to these organizations, ranging from home care, dialysis, alternative and complementary healthcare providers, behavioral health, vision, hearing, medical equipment, air and ground ambulance, lab, imaging, pathology, and medical equipment companies.

With deep experience in the healthcare sector, we can help with a broad scope of business development and product launch insight, reimbursement and formulary considerations for managed care coverage of new technology, drugs, procedures and supplies

Our firm's pharma and device manufacturer consultancy practice regularly accepts projects focused on commercialization and new product launch strategies, formulary and contracting initiatives, physician reimbursement education and utilization support, and other business development efforts. From as far back as the early 1990's, our projects in pharma centered on writing commissioned articles about managed care contracting and reimbursement for new drugs, technology and supplies for physician and hospital client newsletters published by the manufacturers according to an editorial calendar.

We've also assisted in product launch advice to help manufacturers' reimbursement specialists navigate the maze of pharmaceutical, biologicals and device reimbursement at national levels., From time to time, we are also engaged to provide introductions to managed care payers, PBM decision-makers, and large self-funded employer plan administrators when a particular pharmaceutical, biological, or device manufacturer sought to have their product added to summary plan descriptions and formularies for a particular disease or condition.  We maintain a current contact list of over 210,000 such plan administrators for employer-sponsored plans.

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