Healthcare is complex, and when it comes to the changing business landscape, no one company is equipped to deal with all of the complexities single-handedly.
Many innovative healthcare services companies exist to help those of us who run businesses understand changing policies, develop and execute strategies, create new lines of business, and transform underperforming ones. In today's fast-paced world, we can't survive without these kinds of experts. Below we highlight some of the most innovative healthcare services firms in New York. While some of these firms have national and international reach, we only considered firms that are actively at work and have a presence in New York.
COPE Health Solutions (COPE) is a leading healthcare services corporation providing clients with the tools, services, and advice they need to be a leader in the healthcare industry. They have proven to be a highly capable partner for providers and payers seeking to succeed in the new value-based payment environment while developing the diverse talent needed to fill future healthcare roles.
Best known for:
• Care coordination solutions
• Clinical integration
• CMS demonstrations and state waivers
• Financial modeling and analytics
• Healthcare talent innovations
• Managed care systems design
• Project management office
• Strategic planning
Working from 31 West 34th Street, Suite 8040, in Midtown, and around the web on Twitter @COPEHS and LinkedIn.
IMS Consulting Group is the strategy and management consulting arm of IMS Health. The firm helps life science clients boost commercial results and transform their go-to-market approaches by leveraging their deep expertise, on-the-ground presence in over 100 markets, and proprietary tools and methodologies. Because IMS Consulting believes insights need actions to deliver results, they focus on recommendations that are implementable.
Best known for:
• Pricing modeling and market access
• Launch and brand excellence
• Multichannel marketing
• Strategy and portfolio analysis
• Real-world evidence
• Advanced data and analytics
Working from Midtown Manhattan at 485 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017, and around the web on Twitter @IMSHealth and LinkedIn.
Junto Health is a healthcare services firm that offers large healthcare organizations a single resource to learn how policy trends will change their business needs, identify which technologies will help them meet those needs, and use a collaborative, shared-risk approach to sourcing and vetting the best innovative technology available. Junto members represent a diverse network of providers, technologists, policymakers, corporations, investors, and entrepreneurs. Combining startup DNA with strategic policy perspective, Junto Health brings complementary partners together to produce tangible results. The next Member Summit will be held on April 20.
Best known for:
• Partnership development
• Co-development/JV curation
• Startup sourcing and vetting
• Policy advisory
• Innovation advisory
Working from Midtown and Soho at 60 East 42nd St, Suite 1762, New York, NY 10165 and 447 Broadway, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013, and around the web on Twitter @juntohealthand LinkedIn.
Leadership Capital Group is a privately held premier global executive search firm working at the board through VP levels. They thrive at identifying, assessing and recruiting world-class executives into global and national leadership roles. A professional global boutique focused on execution, flexibility, and service, Leadership Capital Group boasts technology and human capital resources equal to larger firms and a track record of results.
Best known for:
• Executive search
• Talent mapping
• Succession planning
Although the Hudson River separates LKG's East Coast office in Mahwah, New Jersey, from NYC proper, LKG focuses on serving the NYC Metro neighborhood. They can be found working at New York Metro 1 International Boulevard Suite 400 Mahwah, NJ 07495, and around the web on Twitter @LeaderCapGroup and LinkedIn
The Marwood Group is a healthcare-focused strategic advisory and financial services firm that provides services to investors and corporate healthcare companies. Marwood's extensive track record and experience in the healthcare marketplace positions the firm to meet the needs of its clients on a local, regional, and global level. Drawing on the expertise of seasoned professionals from healthcare operations, strategic consulting, and government, Marwood advises clients on key issues affecting the healthcare industry.
Best known for:
• Reimbursement, regulatory, and legislative policy
• Transaction advisory services
• Strategic consulting services
• Accountable care and value-based payment
• Compliance and clinical quality consulting services
Working in NYC at 733 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, situated between two major NYC landmarks: Grand Central Terminal and the United Nations Headquarters, and on the web at LinkedIn.
Oliver Wyman's Health and Life Sciences practice serves clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, provider, and payer sectors. Their range of services has helped a large health plan understand key trends in the consumer transparency space and develop a vision and roadmap; a biotech company design a scalable pilot project to improve outcomes and position in a consumer-centric world; and a large national retail pharmacy design and implement an innovative population health management program. Oliver Wyman charted a first-mover path to population health with the potential to up the operating margin 4 to 5 percentage points.
Best known for:
• Consumer-engagement strategies
• Patient-centric models
• Care model for a provider group to address an unsustainable growth trend in Medicaid expenditures
• Implementation of transformative ideas
Working from Midtown next door to Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park at 1166 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, and around the web on Twitter @OliverWyman andLinkedIn.
Oxeon Partners is a Healthcare Growth Services (HGS) firm, connecting healthcare partners with the fundamental drivers of business growth, including great people, strategic capital, business development partnerships, next-generation product design and development, new business concepts, and other growth-related services. Oxeon Partners does 125 executive searches and has, as a result, 20,000+ executive conversations annually that are leveraged for recruiting but also for business development, fundraising, strategic consulting, organizational development as well as product design and development services.
Best known for:
• Executive search
• Growth investments
• Strategic consulting
• Product design and development
• DeNovo entrepreneurship
Working from 330 Hudson St., Suite 300, New York, NY 10013, and around the web on Twitter @OxeonPartners and LinkedIn.
Sachs Policy Group is a healthcare services firm that provides strategies to assist healthcare and emerging technology companies negotiate the changing healthcare environment. SPG employs some of the nation's best healthcare policy, technology, and business advisors with decades of experience in government, nonprofits, and the private sector. Clients include major hospitals, health systems, technology companies, human service agencies, labor unions, behavioral health organizations, and health plans.
Best known for:
• In-depth understanding of how government works and how changes in technology, legislation, regulation, and the industry affect players in the healthcare arena
• Helping their clients address difficult challenges, such as financial crises, mergers, and the need to adapt to healthcare reform.
Working from 60 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, across from Grand Central Station, one of New York City's great landmarks and transportation hubs, and on the web on LinkedIn.
WeiserMazars LLP is a full-service accounting, tax, and advisory firm with over 100 partners in nine U.S. offices. The WeiserMazars Healthcare Practice is a leading change facilitator. This healthcare services firm strives to improve topline revenue through strategic market alliances and innovative reimbursement methodologies; drive bottom line revenue improvement to help meet the increasing demands and lower margins of the healthcare industry; reduce risk and significantly increase savings through the use of appropriate technologies; and optimize efficiencies through organizational restructuring in order to meet the needs of a momentously changing environment.
Best known for:
• Managed care
• Revenue cycle
• Information technology
• Process improvement
They can be found working one block west of Rockefeller Center at 135 W 50th St., New York, NY 10020, and on the web at Twitter @weisermazars and LinkedIn.
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