Healthcare Services

Healthcare organizations compete in a uniquely complex environment characterized by rapidly changing regulations, constant medical innovation and market consolidation. At the center of this sector, managed care organizations, health plans (private and government programs), distributors, and primary, acute and social care providers face unyielding challenges.

Major structural changes in the public and private sectors are creating substantial risks and new opportunities. These changes are motivated in part by legislative and policy changes – but also driven by innovative care models, new technology and business processes, and patient demographics.

L.E.K. Consulting helps senior healthcare executives solve their most complex challenges and build organizations that are adaptable, demonstrate clear incremental value creation, support higher quality outcomes at lower cost, and enable sustainable and profitable growth.

Capabilities Overview

A sample representation of our capabilities includes:

Strategy Development in Light of U.S. Healthcare Reform: In the U.S., L.E.K. assists clients in developing unique solutions to address a rapidly changing marketplace by leveraging our in-depth understanding of policy, empirical and fact-based insights, and a clear understanding of a client’s capabilities and assets.
Strategic Response to Public Sector Funding Constraints: In Europe, L.E.K. supports commercial providers of government-funded healthcare services to address the challenges presented by a fundamental change to public sector funding. Assessing market, political and competitive factors, we develop new winning strategies that enable the continued delivery of value while facilitating government healthcare policy outcomes.
Driving Innovation: We empower clients to transform ideas into new industry standards. We demonstrate the ability to “move the needle” on quality and cost trends through thoughtful analysis, clear articulation and refinement of the value proposition, and a practical approach to integrating new solutions into the healthcare delivery value chain.
Development of Enhanced Social and Healthcare Delivery Models: We collaborate with clients to define technologies, products and service models to meet increasing demand for preventative healthcare in home, social, primary and acute care settings.
Emerging “Retail” Market for Healthcare: L.E.K. supports clients along the value chain (including payers, benefit managers and ancillary care providers) to create robust strategies to enhance revenues, identify new market opportunities and provide consumers with innovative solutions. We combine consumer research with quantitative analysis of growth, profitability, modeling of adoption rates and other market dynamics.
Mergers & Acquisitions: We have deep expertise in advising strategic and financial investors to identify high-yield investment opportunities. Our commercial due diligence efforts also feature post-acquisition strategy and integration services to optimize the value of portfolio companies.

We bring a truly holistic skill set across the entire healthcare industry to our clients, as we combine our focused healthcare services insight with demonstrated expertise in Biopharm & Life Sciences and MedTech.