Marc Berg Name Dr. Marc Berg, MD, PhD Position Principal at KPMG US LLP, National Lead of Government Healthcare Transformation, and member of the KPMG Global Health Center of Excellence, where he leads the work on Value-Based Contracting, Outcomes Measurement and Payment Reform. Education and Qualifications MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Limburg, 1990 MA Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1990 PhD, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Limburg, 1995 Experience Dr. Berg is the National Lead of Government Healthcare Transformation, and member of the KPMG Global Health Center of Excellence, where he leads the work on Value-Based Contracting, Outcomes Measurement and Payment Reform. He currently leads the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program for the State of New York, including a comprehensive Value Based Payment Reform that CMS has embraced as ‘leading the nation’. This program includes ambitious sub-programs such as a comprehensive, > 1.5 Billion dollar program which includes the End of Aids initiative in the overall HIV/AIDS VBP arrangement; a fully dynamic and interactive dashboard with direct access to the State’s Medicaid Data warehouse to support both DSRIP and VBP, and so forth. Marc Berg was Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and has been in leading health care consulting roles for over a decade. His experiences covers several areas: Performance management: Dr. Marc Berg is an internationally acknowledged expert in the principles and practice of measuring the value of health care delivery. His expertise covers the broad range from clinical relevance to methodological rigor to the required analytics and data requirements. He has extensive experience with claims data and clinical data, played a leading role in the introduction of public performance measures on the quality and safety of hospital care, mental health care, nursing home care, chronic care, amongst others. He pioneered the introduction of measuring value of care for defined populations, working for both governments and public payers, building upon an integrated set of claims data, patient-reported outcome measures and clinical data. He is key advisor to British Medical Journal’s new Outcomes journal. Value- Based Purchasing and Payment Reform: his passion for care systems that produce high quality, affordable care has led him on a quest for the optimal policy incentives for value-based care (payment systems, outcome measurement, principles of managed competition). He has developed encompassing VBP strategies for governments and commercial payers at CEO level. He was appointed by the Dutch Minister of Healthcare as the dedicated project leader to introduce comprehensive Bundled Payment for chronic care, and has now lead the creation of the innovative payment reform model for New York State. He has led the creation of a quality–driven country-wide acute care redesign plans in Europe, driven forward by commercial payers as a fundamental stepping stone towards higher quality, lower cost care.

Marc Berg Experience Relevant Publications Care process redesign and patient safety: he started and directed a multi-million Dollars hospital quality improvement initiative, focusing on patient safety and care pathway development, including performance management, enrolling 24 health systems simultaneously. The latter focused on improving flow while improving medical outcomes and reducing costs and waste, pioneering system-wide introduction of care pathways. Patient safety has been an integrated focus in this work; he helped design a stepwise model of patient safety that has been published and adopted internationally. Currently, he leads the DSRIP support team for New York State, supporting all the State’s Medicaid providers to transform from the currently fragmented system towards innovative integrated care organizations accountable for both costs and outcomes of care. Marc Berg has published widely on health care information management, quality management, care pathway development, standardization in clinical work and payment reform. Dr. Marc Berg has published widely on health care information management, quality management, care pathway development, standardization in clinical work and payment reform.