Who we place
Why boards and PE partners choose us
- We reach the leaders who aren't looking. The best executive for your seat is running someone else's right now. We bring them to you, confidentially.
- A senior specialist runs your search. Your seat is handled by a senior consultant who focuses on exactly this specialty, under our US healthcare Sector Head. Not a junior associate and a database.
- Healthcare is all we do. We know the difference between a clinician with a title and a leader who can run a P&L and a medical staff.
- Retained means all-in. We commit the full team to one search and stay until the right person signs. Most of ours close in 30 to 90 days.
- A global bench behind a local search. ISG runs in 50-plus countries with 1,200-plus partners, so no leader is out of reach.
What a payer and value-based-care leadership search really demands
- Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed-care depth
- Value-based reimbursement, risk adjustment, and utilization management
- Population health and care-management leadership
- Quality command across HEDIS, STAR Ratings, and NCQA
- Clinical transformation inside risk-bearing models
- The ability to work across the payer-provider line, not just one side of it
Representative engagements
Representative, anonymized examples. Details and locations changed to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
- A national health plan needed behavioral-health medical leadership for its value-based programs. We placed a leader who shaped clinical strategy across the membership.
- Risk-bearing provider organizations needed value-based-care leadership to make the model actually work. We found and placed it.
Frequently asked questions
How does payer medical leadership differ from provider-side?
Payer-side leaders focus on clinical strategy, utilization, and population health across a covered membership, rather than running a hospital or service line. The skill set and pool are different.
Are these roles remote?
Often, yes. Many payer and value-based-care leadership roles are remote or hybrid, which widens the field of strong candidates.
How do you find health-plan medical directors?
We reach experienced plan and value-based-care leaders confidentially, through the network that knows them.
Meet your search partner
Lee Fossey leads the US Healthcare Executive Search practice for ISG Americas, with a team of senior consultants each focused on a specialty, so your search is run by someone who lives in that corner of the market. Across nearly three decades in search, the practice has helped hospitals, health systems, and private-equity-backed platforms place the leaders who change their trajectory, and on the global ISG platform that reach extends to more than 50 countries. Lee would rather have one honest conversation about your search than send you a proposal.
Book a confidential call with Lee →Have a seat open?
Every week a leadership seat sits empty, it costs you momentum, money, and the board's confidence. One confidential call, and you will know quickly whether we are the firm for your search.
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