Achieving breakout growth by creating, launching, and scaling new businesses in healthcare
With organizations facing unprecedented rates of change in healthcare, new recipes for success will be necessary moving forward. Healthcare leaders will need to create new businesses and think beyond their core capabilities to help unlock the next big waves of growth.
We work with both high-growth and established organizations to build and scale innovative new businesses from scratch that thrive. We put the customer at the heart of every business and every operating model, building the capabilities necessary to compete and grow in healthcare.

Business Building
This is the moment to put business building at the heart of your growth strategy. Using our proven playbook, we can help turn your next corporate venture into outsized growth.
Examples of our work
Design of a new operating organization for a large hospital-management and healthcare-services provider
To monetize its operational-and financial-management capabilities for facilities in fast-growing markets, we performed a rapid diagnostic to identify opportunities, created a business case, and developed an organizational structure, governance model, and preliminary one-year implementation plan. The new business enabled the organization to break into a higher-growth business line.
Establishment of an integrated healthcare ecosystem
An organization wanted to change the way insurance companies did business in healthcare. We came together to build an integrated healthcare ecosystem and develop a range of services across the continuum of care for sustainable growth opportunities.
Scale of a healthcare-technology-services platform in private equity
To support a leading private-equity firm attracted to the high-growth healthcare-technology and -services sector, we performed due diligence and integration of two assets to create a new entity that spanned payment integrity, risk adjustment, population health, and analytics. We helped refresh the marketing and sales strategy through granular understanding of customer needs and journeys, resulting in more than $150 million in new revenue and new opportunities for growth.
Traditional payer expanding into healthcare services
A traditional payer was interested in finding new avenues for step-change growth and value for its core business. We identified opportunities based on the organization’s structural endowments, existing capabilities, and market landscape. To execute, we developed a road map that incorporated both organic and inorganic capital deployment, including comprehensive deal scans and target filtering.
FEATURED BLOG POSTS
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Health business building: The next phase of consumer-directed health
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Traditional and nontraditional healthcare companies can jointly create consumer-directed health ecosystems—focused on holistic prevention, care, and wellness—to complement clinical care.
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Our People

Ulrike Deetjen
PartnerStuttgart
Leads digital transformations in health, life, and property-and-casualty insurance, with a focus on developing and implementing...

Jason Bello
Senior PartnerWashington DC
Helps healthcare organizations build new businesses, bring healthcare innovations to market, and dramatically improve growth...

Nils Peters
Senior PartnerZurich
Supports innovators in biopharmaceutical and medical devices with a broad range of challenges, from shaping portfolios to transforming...

Daniel Glaser
PartnerMunich
Supports consumer-facing clients across digital, innovation, and M&A to drive sustainable and inclusive growth

Paul Jenkins
Senior PartnerOslo
Global co-leader of McKinsey Business Building, helping corporates and private capital design, build, and launch new ventures,...

Florian Niedermann
Senior PartnerStuttgart
Leads our work in the Healthcare Practice in Europe through his expertise in technology and processes in the health and insurance...




