Comprehensive Care Solutions (Purchased by Stryker)

Comprehensive Care Solutions (CCS) is a strategic and business development consulting firm focused on service line development, physician/hospital partnerships, and designing and implementing innovative payment and delivery reforms. CCS was founded by a team with decades of experience helping physicians and hospitals collaborate to design and optimize critical service lines, and innovative payment and delivery programs. The team offers expertise and guidance in physician/hospital joint ventures, including co-management arrangements; clinical service line optimization, particularly in orthopedics; payment reform programs such as episode-based (or bundled) contracting and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs); chronic care optimization; geriatric risk management; readmission reductions; and other delivery and payment system innovations. CCS has grown rapidly since it’s founding, by supporting the needs of all manner of organizations from small community hospitals, major multi-state health systems, large group practices, major device manufactures, leading benefits providers for the health insurance industry, to major Harvard teaching hospitals. CCS is trusted and relied upon by C-Suite executives of these organizations to provide expert strategic advice, program development and unparalleled execution.