Strategic Health Care

Name

Strategic Health Care

Legal name

Strategic Health Care

Website

https://strategichealthcare.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Consulting

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (BPAFADAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare consulting services
• Health policy advocacy
• Government relations consulting
• Managed care contracting
• Federal grant funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Health Policy & Advocacy Consulting: Professional consulting services for legislative and regulatory advocacy, including research, analysis, development of health care policy positions, grassroots advocacy support, and federal representation on issues impacting health systems.
2. Coalition Management Services: Turn-key coalition management services including physical headquarters, executive director, financial management, board governance, membership recruitment, conference planning, and legislative affairs support.
3. Federal Funding/Grant Services: Grant development and application services helping healthcare organizations secure federal funding for programs, equipment, and research. Work with federal agencies that have over $55 billion budgeted for annual grant awards.
4. Managed Care Contracting Services: Managed care contracting optimization including revenue stream analysis, payor positioning assessment, contract negotiation support, and network development for healthcare providers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Strategic Health Care is a boutique healthcare consulting firm that advises hospitals, health systems, post-acute care providers, and healthcare trade associations on federal and state health policy, regulatory advocacy, managed care contracting, coalition management, and federal grant funding. The firm combines policy expertise with practical managed care network development, including a cloud-based care coordination platform called CivicHealth.

Product overview

Strategic Health Care offers a portfolio of healthcare consulting services rather than a unified software product. The core offerings include Health Policy & Advocacy (government affairs consulting), Coalition Management (association/coalition operations), Managed Care Contracting (revenue cycle optimization), and Federal Funding assistance. The CivicHealth cloud platform provides care coordination functionality as a distinct product. The company was founded in 1994 and serves healthcare organizations including hospitals, health systems, and provider networks across the United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CivicHealth: Cloud-based care coordination application offering customizable workflows for value-based programs, enabling care coordination between clinical and community providers.
• SHC Managed Care Solutions

Products and services

• Health Policy & Advocacy Government affairs and health policy consulting service that helps healthcare organizations navigate legislative, regulatory, and policy changes at federal and state levels, including research, analysis, grassroots advocacy, and relationship building with public agencies and elected officials.
• Coalition Management

Quantifiable outcome

• $3+ billion secured over five years for hospital coalition for Medicare wage index classification changes
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Critical Access Hospital (CAH) CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic Health Care partners with the CAH Coalition, which puts issues impacting Critical Access Hospitals on the front burner with Congress, CMS and their agencies. The coalition is managed by SHC as one of its coalition management clients.
• Hospital-Based Nursing School CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSHC provides turn-key coalition management services including legislative affairs support, board governance, and membership recruitment for the Hospital-Based Nursing School Coalition.
• 340b Health System CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic Health Care manages the 340b Health System Coalition, providing coalition professionals and government relations expertise to advocate for 340B drug pricing program participants.
• CivicHealthcoreTechnology or IntegrationCivicHealth is a partner company offering cloud-based, streamlined care coordination applications that are customizable to workflows as value-based programs grow. The platform enables care coordination between clinical and community providers to achieve better patient outcomes at lower costs.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Avalere Health: Avalere Health is a healthcare strategic advisory and consulting firm focused on policy, reimbursement, and market access. It overlaps with Strategic Health Care's work in Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, value-based care strategy, and federal policy analysis for provider clients.
• Mehlman Consulting: Mehlman Consulting is a Washington D.C. lobbying firm with a dedicated healthcare practice representing hospitals, health plans, and pharmaceutical companies on Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA-related policy. It is a direct boutique competitor to Strategic Health Care in healthcare-focused advocacy.
• McDermott+Consulting: McDermott+Consulting is a Washington D.C.-based healthcare government relations and policy consulting firm spun out of McDermott Will & Emery. Like Strategic Health Care, it focuses exclusively on healthcare policy advocacy, regulatory analysis, and lobbying for providers, health systems, and life sciences companies.
• BGR Group: BGR Group is a Washington D.C. lobbying and public affairs firm with a prominent healthcare practice serving health systems, biotech companies, and trade associations. It competes with Strategic Health Care for hospital system and association advocacy engagements.
• Polsinelli: Polsinelli's national healthcare practice includes a substantial government relations and lobbying group serving hospitals, health systems, and provider associations. It offers similar services to Strategic Health Care (policy advocacy, regulatory navigation, reimbursement) but as part of a much larger full-service law firm.
• Capitol Counsel: Capitol Counsel is a Washington D.C. government relations firm representing healthcare, energy, and financial services clients. Its healthcare practice serves providers and trade associations on Medicare, Medicaid, and public health policy, directly overlapping Strategic Health Care's core offerings.
• Thorn Run Partners: Thorn Run Partners is a bipartisan government affairs firm with a significant healthcare practice representing providers, insurers, and trade associations. It offers comparable lobbying, policy analysis, and federal funding services to Strategic Health Care's client base.

Broad incumbents

• Holland & Knight: Holland & Knight is a major U.S. law firm with a substantial healthcare lobbying and policy practice. It serves many of the same hospital systems, post-acute providers, and trade associations as Strategic Health Care, but as part of a much broader legal and lobbying portfolio.
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Akin Gump is a major international law firm with one of the largest healthcare lobbying practices in Washington D.C. It competes for the same hospital systems and association clients as Strategic Health Care but operates at significantly larger scale and with broader legal services.
• Faegre Drinker: Faegre Drinker is a national law firm with a significant healthcare regulatory and government relations practice, including managed care, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, and provider-side policy work. It serves similar clients as Strategic Health Care but within a broader legal services platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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