Brett Spencer is a member of The Boston Consulting Group's  Strategy and Health Care practices, focusing primarily on health care delivery systems and their evolving interactions with the rest of the health care industry.

Since joining the firm in 2014, Brett has worked with numerous organizations on merger-and-acquisition evaluations, postmerger integrations, system strategy, innovation of payment and care models, and clinical integration. He has also helped clients design new delivery models—including those for product design, pricing, and marketing—to meet patients’ emerging needs.

In addition, Brett has deep experience helping companies enhance their performance as they prepare for the increasingly cost-competitive health care environment. He assists them in collaborating with new partners to achieve competitive advantage.

Before BCG, Brett was a partner in Booz & Company's health care practice. After medical school, before returning to consulting, he was founder and CEO of a multispecialty physician group supported by a joint-venture diagnostic and surgical center for outpatients. He practiced as a board-certified internist for 18 years and remains certified in internal medicine.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Leads BCG's provider topic in North America
  • Health care delivery systems
  • System strategy
  • Performance improvement in health care
  • Value-based health care
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Postmerger integration
  • Hospital corporate strategy
  • Clinical quality

EDUCATION

  • MD, Alpha Omega Alpha, Indiana University School of Medicine
  • MBA, Gamma Phi Beta, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • BA, biochemistry, summa cum laude, Northwestern University

Publications and Videos

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Rescuing Hospitals by Resuming Care for All Patients

Public health will be immeasurably harmed if providers and facilities do not begin providing the full portfolio of patient services as soon as local conditions safely allow.
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COVID-19 Is Stressing the Finances of Even the Strongest US Health Systems

Even with the federal government’s $100 billion stimulus package for the health care industry, US hospitals will still face significant financial pressures due to COVID-19.
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Health Care Consumerism Is Real—and Providers Need to Adapt

As consumers become increasingly active in health care decision making, providers need to understand how they weigh the tradeoffs in cost, quality, provider choice, and other key metrics.
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Launching Value-Based Bundles for Consumers: A Game Plan

While bundles have extraordinary promise, not all are equally effective. This article helps providers think tactically about how to create bundled products that will attract payers, employers, and patients.
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The Value of Bundles

In the U.S. health-care market, value-based bundling is a great way for providers to start competing on outcomes.
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The Value-Based Hospital: A Transformation Agenda for Health Care Providers

BCG has identified the six most effective steps that provider organizations can use to implement a value-based operating model and accelerate the rate of change.
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Texas Health Resources: Value-Based Bundles

Texas Health Resources is developing bundled offerings that are comprehensive in coverage and transparent in terms of pricing and outcomes.
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Munich City Hospital: Value-Based Consolidation

Munich City Hospital had to consolidate to avoid bankruptcy. The hospital’s strategy was to focus on delivering the highest quality of care.
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The Value-Based Hospital

In response to an extraordinary combination of pressures, leading health-care providers around the world are embracing a new and more effective operating model.
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The Growing Standardization of Health Outcomes Metrics

As more and more of the world's health-care providers focus on delivering high-quality care, the movement to standardize outcomes metrics is growing.
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The Value-Based Hospital and Translational Medicine

For academic medical centers, increased focus on measuring and understanding patient outcomes comes with an added benefit: better connections between research and health care delivery.
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