People

Areas of Expertise
Education/Memberships/Credentials
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Master of Business Administration
Waco, Texas
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance
Dallas, Texas
Chris Marrs, MBA, is a senior manager at Coker Group. He focuses on fair market value and commercial reasonableness for physician compensation, regulatory compliance, strategic support, and program development for co-management and other hospital-physician programs. His work in physician relationships ranges from standard compensation arrangements to co-management, ACO/CIN distributions, the integration of quality compensation, and other areas. Chris also provides support from a regulatory compliance perspective. He has specific expertise in the relationship between achieving quality and cost improvement goals and physician relationships. This skill includes taking successful tactics found in programs around the United States and adapting them to specific physician relationships. Additionally, he has spoken at conferences and written for the American Bar Association.
Experience
- Provided physician compensation valuations to ensure fair market value and commercial reasonableness
- Provided consulting services related to compensation plans, physician integration, regulatory compliance, centers of excellence, hospital quality and efficiency programs, value-based payer arrangements, and more
- Assisted health systems with the development and improvement of a variety of quality/cost/population health improvement programs