Prashanth is a senior partner in our New Jersey office. He is a leader in our Healthcare Systems & Services, Private Equity & Principal Investors, and Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practices. He serves health insurers, health services, private-equity, and technology clients on a broad range of issues including growth strategy, corporate finance and investing, performance transformation, and driving greater healthcare value.
Prashanth coleads our healthcare domains/centers of excellence (with more than 300 colleagues). Within this group, Prashanth has incubated and grown our domains focused on healthcare services and technology topics and on healthcare payments (focused on payment integrity, risk adjustment, medical management, and pharmacy cost optimization.) He has also built from ground up an over 50 person team of consultants, data scientists, clinical experts, and technologists focused on serving clients on these issues.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Prashanth was a business analyst and business-development leader at a digital business-consulting firm where he served large national health insurer clients on operations and technology issues. He is also a certified managed healthcare professional (MHP).
Published Work
“Transformative healthcare growth through diversification,” McKinsey & Company, August 2019
“The journey to a new tomorrow: A conversation with Patrick J. Geraghty, CEO, Florida Blue,” McKinsey & Company, November 2018
“Using machine learning,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018
“Why the evolving healthcare services and technology market matters,” McKinsey & Company, April 2018
“Insights on radiology spend,” McKinsey & Company, March 2018
Past Experience
Cognizant
Business development assistant manager
Education
London Business School
MiF
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
MBA
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
BE, computer engineering