Healthcare improvements have dramatically increased life expectancy, and new treatments are improving quality of life for many populations. Yet with this progress comes daunting economic challenges. For at least 40 years, healthcare spending in the United States has outpaced GDP growth. We work with private and public healthcare leaders to identify innovative ways to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges and improve the productivity and quality of healthcare delivery.
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Healthcare Systems & Services
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Identifying innovative ways to address healthcare value and affordability
Center for US Health System Reform
Our in-house source on health policies, the Center undertakes original research and develops tools to help navigate an ever-changing policy and healthcare landscape.
McKinsey Health Institute
The McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) is an enduring, non-profit-generating entity within the firm. It was founded on the conviction that, over the next decade, humanity could add as much as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life (roughly 6 years per person on average—and substantially more in some countries and populations).
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Actuarial Analytics
Optimizing growth through deep actuarial, analytic, and healthcare-risk expertise
Nebula platform
Operationalizing the strategic and secure use of healthcare data to deliver insights that transform healthcare systems and organizations around the world
Featured experts
Brendan Buescher
Senior PartnerOhio - Cleveland
Leads statewide efforts to improve population health and create sustainable healthcare delivery systems, and supports state-led...
Brandon Carrus
Senior PartnerOhio - Cleveland
Works with CEOs and top teams to achieve excellence in clinical and service operations
Manish Chopra
Senior PartnerNew York
Serves clients in healthcare, B2B industries, and private equity on strategy, M&A, and operational improvement, and leads pricing...
Patrick Finn
Senior PartnerDetroit
Supports healthcare organizations—particularly payors—on strategic planning for reform, operations, risk management, organization,...
Jocelyn Grahame
Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Applies her organizational expertise to help clients shift strategy, improve performance, build capabilities, and strengthen...
Celia Huber
Senior PartnerBay Area
Leads our North American board services sector and advises organizations on strategies to help thrive within the context of global...
Ian Jefferson
Senior PartnerWashington DC
Serves healthcare clients across the value chain and helps complex organizations undergo postmerger integrations, culture-change...
Basel Kayyali
Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Assists healthcare, high-tech, and telecommunications companies with digital and analytics transformations targeted at their...
Karl Kellner
Senior PartnerNew York
Brings extensive experience in healthcare management, shapes strategy, and leads major performance-improvement initiatives for...
Gunjan Khanna
Senior PartnerPittsburgh
Leads healthcare private equity and helps both payers and providers on a variety of strategic, operational, and technology work....
David G. Knott
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads the firm’s Center for US Health System Reform and Medicaid work, drawing on 30 years of experience with national and regional...
Dr. Edward Levine
Senior PartnerBay Area
Serves multiple national and regional hospital networks on frontline operations transformations for both clinical and nonclinical...
David Nuzum
Senior PartnerNew York
Supports public and private payers as well as healthcare providers in strategy formation, business design, and implementation...
Shubham Singhal
Senior PartnerDetroit
Global leader of McKinsey's social, healthcare, and public entities sectors with the mission to measurably improve individuals'...
Drew Ungerman
Senior PartnerDallas
Leads McKinsey's Healthcare Practice globally and is a global leader of the McKinsey Health Institute
Tim Ward
Senior PartnerSouthern California
Leads our work with US state and local governments, bringing the best of our cross-sector expertise in digital, analytics, transformation,...
Featured insights
Article
The era of exponential improvement in healthcare?
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Technology-driven innovation holds the potential to improve our understanding of patients, enable the delivery of more convenient, individualized care—and create $350 billion–$410 billion in annual value by 2025.
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Transformative healthcare growth through diversification
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Five lessons to consider when moving beyond your core business
Executive Briefing
The productivity imperative for healthcare delivery in the United States
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Healthcare is a key component of the US economy, but healthcare spending increases consistently outstrip GDP growth. Improving...
Article
The future of healthcare: Finding the opportunities that lie beneath the uncertainty
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Healthcare is a dynamic industry with significant opportunity, but cost concerns, uncertainty, and complexity can also make it...
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