AskMariaTodd™

Summary Bio: Maria Todd is the personality behind the AskMariaTodd™ brand, a healthcare business management firm she launched in 1983. Maria helps healthcare organizations to organize, contract, market and grow revenues and margins. 

She brings decades of hands on work experience in a unique combination as a former group practice, hospital and ASC administrator, a former OR nurse, a health law paralegal and mediator, and health plan contract negotiator and provider relations director, and Google-certified expert in digital marketing to her client assignments.  She works part-time Director of Business Development at St George Surgical Center, a thriving southern Utah ASC developing their cash pay surgery price transparency program and contracting directly with TPAs and employer and union-sponsored health benefit programs for medical travel services. 

Her private consulting clients include health systems, physicians, integrated health systems and medical tourism clusters, investors, insurers, health plans, employers, unions TPAs, attorneys, healthcare lenders and international financial institutions, the EC and government authorities in 116 countries, and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Todd’s work includes providing subject matter expertise and guidance for hospitals, health systems, ASCs, physicians, investors and government agencies seeking to improve their revenues and creating new revenue streams, and assessing their organization and infrastructure to identify and prioritize best opportunities for improvements in market share, revenue management, managed care, surgery, pricing, operations, quality and safety accreditation preparation, health tourism and other business development initiatives. She also works with startups in concierge medicine and medical travel.

She is the author of 19 books (and three forthcoming titles under contract) on healthcare business administration topics. When time permits, Maria appears as the featured international keynote speaker at industry events around the world setting the tone and inspiring attendees at conferences, symposia, and congresses. She frequently presents Master Class training workshops open to the public and private onsite training courses for client organizations.

Maria has helped launch new products and services for providers and payers. As a consultant, over the past 35+ years, she has managed multi-million dollar projects in the U.S. and abroad. Organizations and investors enlist her assistance to build and implement innovative programs and products and bring them to market. Her services help healthcare organizations to grow market share, revenues and margins.

Maria lives in St George, Utah with her husband Alan, and their three cats. She loves to travel and learn new languages, and takes time to relax with friends and family at home with paella parties on the patio, and al fresco spots throughout the U.S. and around the world.