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About us

Meet our team

Debbie Woodard
President
Deborah Woodard, RN, MS began consulting in December 2001 and is entering her twentieth year in the business. As President and founder of DMW Consulting, Ms. Woodard brings over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with a primary focus on operations and process improvement of integrated health care systems, health care entities and managed care organizations in newly created, merged and acquired organizations. Her clinical knowledge, operations background, and broad consulting experience have given her a unique perception of the industry allowing her to better understand the different aspects and perspectives of a project and provide results driven leadership.
She has demonstrated success fostering and leading an environment of change and growth. Her career has provided experience in both the payer and provider sides of the industry. Her previous positions include Vice President of Managed Care in two major regional healthcare systems and senior management level positions with both a Texas and National health plan.
A native Tennessean, she obtained her nursing degree from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and graduated with her Masters from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Deborah served as adjunct faculty for the UT School of Nursing Critical Care Program and the Department of Technical and Adult Education. She is a past Board Member of the University of Tennessee Regional Advisory Board for Adult and Technical Education and the North Texas American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2011-2016 where she formed and chaired the Advocacy Committee 2013-2016. Deborah served as a member of the National ADA Community and Voluneer Development Committee 2013-2015.
Specialties: Business Development, Strategic Planning, Contract Negotiations, Revenue Management, ACO Operations, Provider/Payer Relations and Financial/Operational Oversight

John Woodard
Vice President
John has been working with Deborah M. Woodard Consulting Inc. for the past 10 years. He resumed full-time consulting in March 2016. John attended Texas A&M University in Commerce where he majored in Business administration and Marketing. He has performed such projects as:
  • Assist in the development of business proposals
  • Provide administrative functions for office including customer service
  • Assist in managed care network development from identification of providers through contract finalization. Primary focus on independent and small physician practices and ancillary services for Medicaid, CHIP and Medicare networks.
  • Request credentialing, review documentation returned for adequacy and follow up on additional information needed
  • Benchmarking of physician fee schedules
  • Marketing plans for physician groups
  • Market survey development
John has also helped in the business development and marketing of other small companies, in the Dallas area, which deal in the automotive industry. He has extensive sales and customer relations experience.
Extensive background and understanding of CRM systems. Use of Salesforce for managed care contracting process.

Consultant Network
DMW has developed a listing of subject matter and technical experts with a broad base of experience who can be called upon to assist in meeting the client’s needs.