Formation Strategies provides organizational and pre-market consulting and operational support services designed to meet the business development objectives of clients in the healthcare, life sciences, nutraceutical, and medical products industries. Our consulting services produce strategic and operational plans, organizational design strategies, business process reviews, and affiliation agreements. We also provide ongoing support to our clients ranging from full service, turnkey management of business units to such key business processes as sales and marketing, customer support, call center, and accounting.

Our team will work with your team to define and investigate new business opportunities, develop the business plan, and lay out a blueprint for its implementation. Whether you are considering developing new products and services, repackaging existing ones for new markets, or improving business processes to more effectively meet customer needs, Formation Strategies can help you achieve your goals.

In addition to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices, we have served clients in the dietary supplement, consumer products, and specialty laboratory industries. Examples of projects and engagements include the following:

• Marketing plan for coronary calcium scoring business unit
• Long-range financial and financing plan for multi-hospital system
• Full-service management contract with a dietary supplement company
• Revenue cycle review for a suburban hospital
• Corporate culture assessment and organizational development for a technology division
• Centralized patient access project for large, multi-hospital system
• Strategic planning for preventive cardiology and women's cardiac services
• Physician practices acquisition and merger evaluations
• Business planning for plastic surgery and wound care
• Review of hospital-based physician employment practices
• Investigation of manufacturing alternatives for medical consumer product company
• Start-up and management of a specialty laboratory business
• Surgical services product line development
• Video production coordination for interventional cardiology education
• Marketing support for health screening services
• Business and operational planning for disease management services
• Evaluation of spin-off opportunity for imaging software development business
• Evaluation of cardio-metabolic and vascular service business opportunities