Maria Todd brings extensive experience to your Ambulatory Surgery Center (“ASC”). Maria has worked at the forefront of the ambulatory surgery industry in the USA and abroad and brings hands-on direct work experience for the strategic, financial, and operational challenges facing today’s ASCs.
She brings ASC administrators and their surgeon owner operators the specialized knowledge and expertise in their most pressing challenges and pathways to assist with innovative and easily sustainable strategies that grow revenues and volumes.
Maria provides program assistance and implementation support for the services below:
- organizational redesign and infrastructure operations
- clinical and administrative quality management
- identifying cost-saving opportunities
- revenue management troubleshooting and A/R reduction
- assessment of financing options for self pay and high deductible patients
- partnerships with attorneys (work comp and MVA) and legal cases
- negotiating labor agreements
- cost containment and revenue optimization in the perioperative setting
- sterile processing department cost and preference card assessments to drive down cost per case while increasing margins on negotiated rates
- creation and implementation of operationally marketable outpatient surgery programs
- surgical tourism program development and marketing
- cash pay surgery program development and marketing
- price transparency and bundled price integrity and marketing
- implementation and promotion of new technologies and treatment options (robotics, lo/no opioid, laser, etc.)
- Medicare knee replacement surgery in the ASC setting
- third-party payor contract analysis & negotiation
- direct contracts with employers and unions
- mentoring of new managers
- as a former OR nurse, Maria is equally effective helping single-room physician-based and multispecialty joint venture ASCs
- brings a “can do” attitude instead of a “cookie-cutter” prescription to your ASC
- regulatory compliant social marketing and engagement campaigns to boost brand image and reputation
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Maria Todd is an experienced ASC marketing and business development expert. She has developed complex, wide-scale healthcare marketing campaigns for providers in the USA, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America, Europe, CIS, Asia and in the Caribbean. A published author on various topics in healthcare administration and business development, she contributes to a number of recognized publications in the USA and abroad and speaks at select industry events both in the USA and internationally.