
As a former Dean and appointed University Professor and Endowed Department Chair, Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA was a NYSE broker and investment banker for a decade who was respected for his unique perspectives, balanced contrarian thinking and measured judgment to influence key decision makers in strategic education, health economics, finance, investing and public policy management.
Dr. Marcinko is originally from Loyola University MD, Temple University in Philadelphia and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in PA; as well as Oglethorpe University and Emory University in Georgia, the Atlanta Hospital & Medical Center; Kellogg-Keller Graduate School of Business and Management in Chicago, and the Aachen City University Hospital, Koln-Germany. He became one of the most innovative global thought leaders in medical business entrepreneurship today by leveraging and adding value with strategies to grow revenues and EBITDA while reducing non-essential expenditures and improving dated operational in-efficiencies.
Professor David Marcinko was a board certified surgical fellow, hospital medical staff President, public and population health advocate, and Chief Executive & Education Officer with more than 425 published papers; 5,150 op-ed pieces and over 135+ domestic / international presentations to his credit; including the top ten [10] biggest drug, DME and pharmaceutical companies and financial services firms in the nation. He is also a best-selling Amazon author with 30 published academic text books in four languages [National Institute of Health, Library of Congress and Library of Medicine].
Dr. David E. Marcinko is past Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious “Journal of Health Care Finance”, and a former Certified Financial Planner® who was named “Health Economist of the Year” in 2010. He is a Federal and State court approved expert witness featured in hundreds of peer reviewed medical, business, economics trade journals and publications [AMA, ADA, APMA, AAOS, Physicians Practice, Investment Advisor, Physician’s Money Digest and MD News] etc.
Later, Dr. Marcinko was a vital and recruited BOD member of several innovative companies like Physicians Nexus, First Global Financial Advisors and the Physician Services Group Inc; as well as mentor and coach for Deloitte-Touche and other start-up firms in Silicon Valley, CA.
As a state licensed life, P&C and health insurance agent; and dual SEC registered investment advisor and representative, Marcinko was Founding Dean of the fiduciary and niche focused CERTIFIED MEDICAL PLANNER® chartered professional designation education program; as well as Chief Editor of the three print format HEALTH DICTIONARY SERIES® and online Wiki Project.
Dr. David E. Marcinko’s professional memberships included: ASHE, AHIMA, ACHE, ACME, ACPE, MGMA, FMMA, FPA and HIMSS. He was a MSFT Beta tester, Google Scholar, “H” Index favorite and one of LinkedIn’s “Top Cited Voices”.
Marcinko is “ex-officio” and R&D Scholar-on-Sabbatical for iMBA, Inc. who was recently appointed to the MedBlob® [military encrypted medical data warehouse and health information exchange] Advisory Board.


ACOs
Accountable care organizations rely on the premise that improving outpatient and preventive care, perhaps with improved management and coordination of services for those with chronic conditions, will save money.
But a recent study in Health Affairs showed that care coordination and management initiatives in the outpatient setting haven’t been drivers of savings in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Butch
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More on Medicare ACOs
CMS proposes Medicare ACO revamp to force risk:
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cms-proposes-medicare-aco-revamp-to-force-risk/529835/
Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA
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ACOs
“To ensure that ACOs have a sufficient business case to participate in this voluntary program, we urge CMS to modify these proposals in the final rule,” the lawmakers said in an Oct. 23 letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
However, CMS innovation center chief Adam Boehler has said he is not worried if ACOs drop out, as he says others will take their place in the system.
Charlene
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Medicare ACOs
CMS finalizes rule forcing ACOs to take on more risk!
Smaller, physician-led or “low revenue” ACOs – many of which are in rural areas – have shown greater success in controlling costs than hospital-led ACOs.
-Seema Verma [CMS]
The agency also just released results of Next Generation, the ACO that takes on the most risk for Medicare payments.
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/cms-finalizes-rule-forcing-acos-take-more-risk
QUESTION: Is anyone surprised?
It is much more difficult to turn around battle-ship than a cigarette boat.
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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MSSP and ACOS Update 2020
https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/policy-value-based-care/mips-macra/article/21148903/cms-drops-proposed-rule-impacting-quality-payment-program-mssp-acos
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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ACOs
Since Value-based care has not proven to improve outcomes for patients and only enriches the payers there is reason to not cut back don’t you think?
Where is the third-party empirical research supporting the validity of value-based care? Most of the data supporting so-called value-based care come from the payers and biased researchers like Rand Corp.
NK
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