Advisory

Built by operators. Focused on outcomes.

From strategy to execution, we help healthcare organizations and investors improve performance, grow and lead through change.

Approach

Our approach

Effective value-based care requires more than strategy. It requires knowing where to focus, how to align clinical and financial priorities, and how to execute across complex organizations.

We bring an operator’s perspective to every engagement—combining strategic insight with practical implementation and measurable accountability.

Medical costs that stay down. The right growth, in the right markets. Technology that enhances outcomes. Results that outlast competitors.

Healthcare Organizations

For organizations that carry the risk, and the companies that serve them.

We work with health plans, risk-bearing medical groups and the value-based care companies that sell to them. Our advisors have run these organizations, so we start from the operator’s chair.

Risk-bearing entities
Vendors to risk-bearing organizations
Population health programs
Care management organizations
Post-acute providers
Independent physician organizations

Where we help

  • Strategy & growthWhere to compete and how to grow.
  • Fractional & interim C-suite leadershipCEO, COO and population health leadership when you need it.
  • Value-based care transformationMoving from fee-for-service to risk.
  • Mergers, partnerships & market entryNew markets, deals and alliances.
  • Medical cost reductionLower PMPM without cutting quality.
  • Care & utilization managementThe right support for the right patients.
  • OperationsStaffing, workflows and performance reporting.
  • Population health & care modelsPrograms for high-risk, high-cost populations.
  • Transitional & post-acute careFewer readmissions and avoidable days.
  • CommercializationBuilding what risk-bearing organizations will buy.
  • Technology & AI adoptionChoosing and deploying tools that pay off.
  • Turnarounds & performance improvementGetting underperforming organizations back on track.

How we work

We partner with organizations at different stages of growth and transformation, tailoring our involvement to the opportunity and the outcomes that matter most.

Strategic Advisory

Ongoing counsel to executives, boards, and investors on growth, value-based care strategy, operating performance, and critical business decisions.

Fractional & Interim Leadership

Executive leadership on a fractional or interim basis, from CEO and COO to Chief Population Health Officer, to lead major initiatives, build new businesses or bridge a transition.

Transformation & Execution

Focused engagements to solve complex operating challenges, improve financial and clinical performance, and translate strategy into measurable results.

Strategic Partnerships

Collaborative opportunities with healthcare innovators, investors, and operating organizations to scale solutions, develop new models of care, and create long-term value.

Optional add-on. Where it helps, we bring our readmission prevention platform into the engagement.

Investors & Strategic Partners

An operator’s view, before and after the deal.

Value-based care businesses look different from the inside. We help investors see what the numbers can’t: whether performance lasts, the model scales and the team delivers.

What we do

Diligence

Medical cost trends, the care model, and the operating realities behind the financials.

Business model viability

How the economics hold up under risk, across markets and as the business grows.

Management assessment

The team’s track record running this kind of business, and where the gaps are.

Value creation after the deal

The cost, operations and growth priorities that matter most in the first year and beyond.

Why us

Dr. Jennifer Dunphy, Founder of The Value Care Group

For ten years, Jennifer Dunphy served as Chief Population Health Officer at one of Southern California’s largest full-risk provider organizations, carrying $600 million in P&L responsibility. She has made the operating decisions that investors are underwriting.

Longer-term partnerships. For the right companies, we also serve as operating partners and board members.

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