HealthScape Advisors

What HealthScape Advisors does

HealthScape Advisors is a US-based management consulting firm specializing exclusively in the payer side of the healthcare industry. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago with additional offices in Boston, New York, Brentwood (Nashville area), and Washington, D.C., the firm operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Chartis, a diversified healthcare consulting organization that also includes Jarrard and Greeley. HealthScape serves national, regional, provider-sponsored, and niche health plans, as well as ancillary and specialty health organizations and healthcare investors, with a client base of more than 300 organizations across 48 US states and a stated client retention rate above 90%.

The firm organizes its advisory offering around five service areas: Accelerate Strategic Growth, Enhance Value, Optimize Operations and Technology, Activate Decision Intelligence, and Communicate with Purpose. Supporting capabilities include clinical transformation, payment integrity, change management, and pharmacy benefit management advisory delivered through the PayerAlly division acquired in May 2026. HealthScape also publishes proprietary research, most notably the annual Medicare Advantage Competitive Enrollment Report (covering 35.4 million MA beneficiaries in the 2026 edition) and recurring strategic outlooks, which function as a top-of-funnel demand generation asset. The firm's technology platform is SOC 2 Type 2 attested and HITRUST e1 certified, supporting analytics and benchmarking workloads for payer clients.

Commercially, HealthScape operates as a professional services firm with enterprise-only direct sales targeting health plan C-suites and senior executives. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and engagements are delivered as bespoke advisory projects spanning strategic planning, operational transformation, transaction advisory, and performance improvement. As a privately held subsidiary of Chartis, the firm does not publish revenue figures, has no external venture capital or private equity investors, and does not maintain a public listing.

Name

HealthScape Advisors

Legal name

HealthScape Advisors

Website

https://healthscape.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

HealthScape Advisors is a US payer-focused management consulting firm serving more than 300 health plans, payers, and healthcare investors across 48 states with strategic, operational, clinical, and pharmacy benefit management advisory services as a Chartis subsidiary.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Management Consulting

NAICS

Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Pharmacy Benefit Analytics, Reporting & Employer Consulting (HLAEAKAK)

Keywords

• Healthcare payer consulting
• Health plan advisory
• Medicare advantage strategy
• Medicaid managed care consulting
• Pharmacy benefit management advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advisory and Consulting Services: HealthScape generates revenue through professional advisory and consulting engagements with health plans, payers, and healthcare organizations. Services include strategic planning, operational transformation, transaction advisory, and performance improvement consulting.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HealthScape Advisors is a payer-focused management consulting firm that provides strategic advisory, operational transformation, transaction advisory, and performance improvement services to health plans, payers, ancillary and specialty health organizations, and healthcare investors. Its work is organized around five service lines — Accelerate Strategic Growth, Enhance Value, Optimize Operations and Technology, Activate Decision Intelligence, and Communicate with Purpose — and supported by proprietary analytics, including annual Medicare Advantage competitive enrollment research. The firm also delivers pharmacy benefit management advisory through its PayerAlly division.

Product overview

HealthScape Advisors is a payer advisory firm and Chartis company that provides consulting services to health plans, payers, ancillary and specialty health organizations, and healthcare investors. The company operates across five core service areas: Accelerate Strategic Growth, Enhance Value, Optimize Operations and Technology, Activate Decision Intelligence, and Communicate with Purpose. HealthScape offers specialized capabilities including clinical transformation, payment integrity, and pharmacy benefit management (through its PayerAlly division acquired in 2026). The firm also produces proprietary research including annual Medicare Advantage competitive enrollment reports and strategic outlook publications. The company serves over 300 healthcare organizations across 48 US states with a 90%+ client retention rate.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Payer & Health Plan Consulting Services
• Medicare Advantage Competitive Enrollment Reports
• Clinical Transformation Advisory
• Payment Integrity Engagements
• PayerAlly PBM Advisory
• Change Management and Strategic Alignment

Quantifiable outcome

• Client retention rate exceeds 90%
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• PayerAllycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 May 2026HealthScape Advisors acquired PayerAlly, an independent pharmacy consulting firm specializing in pharmacy benefit management strategy, procurement, and optimization. PayerAlly continues operating as a division of HealthScape under its existing leadership while benefiting from expanded technological capabilities and scale. The acquisition combines both firms' capabilities to help health plans and employers manage rising pharmacy costs through integrated medical and pharmacy strategy services.
• ChartiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthScape Advisors is a Chartis company, operating as part of the broader Chartis healthcare consulting network alongside Jarrard (healthcare communications) and Greeley (quality and safety consulting). This affiliation provides access to cross-functional expertise across clinical transformation, strategy, communications, and quality domains.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Huron Consulting Group: Huron operates a dedicated healthcare consulting practice advising health systems and payers on operational improvement and technology enablement. It is a comparable mid-sized public consulting peer, with overlap on payer operations and transformation work.
• Leavitt Partners: Leavitt Partners (now part of Health Management Associates) advises health plans, providers, and healthcare investors on strategy, policy, and value-based care. It overlaps directly with HealthScape's payer strategy and healthcare investor advisory practices.
• Avalere Health: Avalere Health is a DC-based healthcare consultancy with deep payer, provider, and life sciences advisory practices. It is the closest direct peer to HealthScape, competing head-to-head for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and PBM strategy engagements with health plans.
• ECG Management Consultants: ECG Management Consultants is a healthcare-focused strategy and management consulting firm serving payers, providers, and healthcare investors. It is a highly comparable mid-sized peer with a similar payer-centric orientation.

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte (Health Care Consulting): Deloitte's Health Care practice provides actuarial, strategy, and technology consulting to payers and providers. As a Big Four incumbent, it competes with HealthScape on large payer transformation, M&A, and regulatory engagements.
• McKinsey & Company (Healthcare Practice): McKinsey's healthcare practice advises payers, providers, and investors on strategy and transformation. It is a broad incumbent that competes for the largest payer transformation mandates alongside HealthScape.
• Oliver Wyman (Health & Life Sciences): Oliver Wyman's Health & Life Sciences practice serves health plans, providers, and pharma on strategy, operations, and risk. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with HealthScape on payer growth, value-based care, and MA market entry work.
• Bain & Company (Healthcare): Bain's healthcare practice serves insurers, providers, and pharma on growth, cost, and digital strategy. It is a broad incumbent competitor for enterprise payer advisory and transaction work.
• Optum Advisory Services: Optum Advisory (UnitedHealth Group's consulting arm) provides strategy, actuarial, and operational consulting to payers and providers. As a broad incumbent with embedded data assets, it competes with HealthScape on payer transformation engagements at enterprise scale.

Emerging players

• SG2 (Vizient): SG2, part of Vizient, provides healthcare intelligence and advisory to providers and payers, with proprietary data and forecasting assets. It overlaps with HealthScape's analytics and decision-intelligence offerings, particularly on payer-provider strategy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles28 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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