Nation’s leading healthcare advisory firm with an unparalleled breadth of capabilities and depth of experience: The Chartis Group

You operate in an environment of ever-growing complexity—in care delivery, industry consolidation and convergence, expanding disruptive technologies, changing regulatory requirements, and so much more. At Chartis, they understand the challenges you face and why healthcare transformation is so difficult. Different by design, Chartis is built to help make it easier. The Chartis Group is designed to materially improve healthcare. The Chartis Group brings a comprehensive array of mission-critical advisory services to its clients from management consulting in the areas of strategy, performance, digital and IT, and revenue cycle, to clinical quality and patient safety services, medical staff services, and interim staffing, to strategic communications and change management. Chartis’ practices, individually and collectively, help clients navigate the future of care delivery and make healthcare better.

Different by Design

Healthcare is in Chartis’ DNA. The company brings an unparalleled depth of expertise and breadth of experience to its clients. Chartis is comprised of over 500 leading healthcare advisors, physicians, data scientists, nurses, strategists, digital architects, informaticists, and practitioners who possess unrivaled experience helping advance healthcare delivery. Chartis’ teams bring innovative yet pragmatic approaches to healthcare's most complex challenges. Chartis co-develops with its clients. The team works in an integrated and agile way, bringing together shared and complimentary capabilities in a way that creates exponential value, accelerates change, and materially advances performance, quality, experience, accessibility, affordability, and equity. Experience matters. Not only the experience that Chartis brings to bear (which matters enormously), but also the experience you have working with it. Chartis’ consulting model is constructed around making the experience a fulfilling and enriching one. For that is not only when results are the greatest, but it's also just how it should be. 

Deep Expertise across the Payer Landscape

Through the recent acquisition of crankfrog, Chartis Consulting’s Payer Advisory Practice offers deep expertise in working with national, regional, and local payers and other risk bearing entities to develop innovative approaches that improve healthcare financing, access, risk, and payer and provider collaboration. Healthcare is a dynamic industry where each day brings new opportunities and challenges. There is an increasing focus across the payer segment on strategies to improve the quality of care delivered to members, while managing both clinical and administrative costs in an effective way. Payer organizations are looking to grow and expand into new markets, partner with providers and other stakeholders in innovative ways, while continuing to ensure they operate in a compliant way. As Chartis’ clients explore how to improve social determinants to impact overall health, data interoperability, and the engagement of individuals in how and where they receive care, the healthcare industry continues to be an area ripe for opportunities to improve how quality, cost effective care is delivered.

Chartis brings deep industry expertise and experience in payer business strategy, operations and technology. The company’s dedicated consultants help clients succeed with evolving and differentiating healthcare business models that create value for their organizations, members, and providers. Chartis acutely understands that success requires eliminating the line between technology and business. And with excellence as Chartis’ standard, the company tackles its clients’ challenges and opportunities as its own. Chartis’ insights enable clients to become industry leaders for change and transform day-to-day operations to take on new demands.

Chartis’ team maximizes value for clients, digging into the details to develop clear and actionable plans for achieving success.  The company utilizes small, multidisciplinary teams with the requisite skills and experience to meet client objectives.  Chartis’ integrated, hands-on approach and collaborative style allow us to easily join client teams and accelerate results.  The company emphasizes an innovation-centric methodology, and push provocative thinking and ideas, to identify the right solutions.  The company leverages proven frameworks and approaches to build strategic roadmaps, establish business cases, mobilize programs, and produce turnkey deliverables.

Accelerating the Promise of Health Equity

Health inequity is embedded in our communities. A problem centuries in the making, it is complicated and complex. And while solving this problem is complicated, it is not impossible. The Chartis Just Health Collective is focused on creating a liberated healthcare system free of bias, discrimination, and disparities—resulting in equitable health for all. People have an 'inherent' desire and need to belong. This human experience is true for healthcare consumers and those who treat them. Both are important stakeholders in advancing health equity and belonging (the intersection of equity + diversity + inclusion). Healthcare organizations must chart a new course and collaborate with multi-sector partners to create a society and healthcare system that gives employees a sense of inclusiveness, consumers a sense of trust, and everyone a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health.

Meet the leader behind the success of The Chartis Group

Ken Graboys is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Chartis Group. His experience in healthcare consulting spans 20 years helping leading academic medical centers, integrated delivery systems, and healthcare service organizations achieve their strategic and economic imperatives. Ken’s work is concentrated in the areas of: economic and strategic planning, collaborative venture strategy and affiliations, network formation and organization, and provider/physician/payer alignment. Ken is a frequent speaker at industry forums, board retreats, and academic conferences. He has presented at ACHE, HFMA, and CHIME conferences and lectured at the Yale University School of Management and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management on topics including: Healthcare Reform, Strategic and Economic Planning, Healthcare Economic Policy, and The Analytics of Decision Making in Healthcare.

Ken has been published in the Healthcare Financial Management Journal and is currently authoring a series of industry white papers on "Applied Economics in an Uncertain World." Before founding Chartis, Ken was a Senior Partner and Managing Director at CSC Healthcare and its predecessor, APM Management Consultants. There, he managed APM/CSC's Chicago office and central region and was a leader of the firm's Strategic Planning and Post Merger Integration practice. His professional experience also includes structuring healthcare trade programs between United States healthcare enterprises and the U.S.S.R while at the international strategy consulting firm Telesis, Inc. He also served two and a half years with the United States Peace Corps in Mauritania, West Africa establishing and maintaining feeding centers in famine regions.

Ken serves on several civic and business organization boards including the Rand Organization, Press-Ganey, Heart Healers International, the Lightshare Foundation, The Providence Country Day School, and the Chartis Foundation. He holds a Master of Public and Private Management, earned with recognition, from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in social policy from Northwestern University.

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