Population Health Strategic Consulting

With a unique breadth and depth of healthcare experience, Health Catalyst’s value-based care consultants deliver expert guidance for payment and care transformation in your organization. We partner with your leadership to create a vision and strategy that align value across the components of your population health ecosystem; prioritize your best opportunities for revenue, cost, and quality improvement; and empower your organization to implement change in a coordinated way.

The problem

Health systems, ACOs, CINs, payers, and ambulatory delivery models typically begin their value-delivery quest by asking “What does value mean to our organization and patients, and how do we successfully deliver it?” Over time these interlocking entities—each with its own population-specific delivery model and its own goals for revenue, cost, and quality—seek clarity amid complexity, asking, “How do we develop and execute a coordinated plan across these interests?” 

Our approach

The Population Health Strategic Consulting service delivers specialized support to help your leadership select and structure initiatives that balance short- and long-term risks, capitalize on meaningful opportunities, and position the organization for durable success in value-based care. 

Benefits and components

Broad perspective, specialized background. With a deep bench of clinical, financial, analytic, and operational expertise, our team is uniquely positioned to help organizations navigate the complexity of value-based care arrangements, learn from national best practices, and chart a rational course forward.

Technical savvy. Data and analytics form the basis of any successful value-based care strategy. Our team helps organizations integrate applications and data insights into strategy deployment workflows.

Flexible partnership. Tailored to the needs of your organization, most engagements include these elements:

• Evaluation: Survey and appraise your business and market environment, current operational and financial status, and organizational imperatives.
• Value mapping: Add context to data insights to find a path to measurable value across overlapping population health strategic plan components including ambulatory care, provider affiliation strategy, direct to employer delivery, and system-wide quality excellence.
• Strategic planning: Develop a clear vision and plan that positions your organization to realize revenue, cost, and quality goals.