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Healthcare Consultant roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field, such as health administration, public health, or clinical sciences. Consulting firms, hospital systems, and managed care organizations all file LCAs with the DOL before sponsoring, and many sponsor multiple petitions each fiscal year.
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INTRODUCTION
Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.
Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.
Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage, and the teams they lead. As change leaders, our Managers build long-standing partnerships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve our clients’ most pressing business challenges. Huron Managers shape and deliver results that seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration, and personal achievement.
As a Manager, you will have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while gaining exposure to a breadth of capabilities across our performance improvement practice. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention needed for professional development. Every colleague contributes to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. Create your future at Huron.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Lead initiatives to streamline procurement, inventory management, and distribution processes, ensuring cost-effective and timely delivery of medical supplies and equipment.
- Utilize data analytics to identify trends, forecast demand, and drive continuous improvement in supply chain operations, enhancing overall efficiency and reducing costs.
- Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members.
- Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change.
- Impactful and professional written and verbal communication skills; ability to set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership.
- Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives.
- Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and providing feedback through performance management.
- Employees are required to follow utilization set by practice and expectations and it is the employees' responsibility to manage this.
- Required to complete all assigned instructed courses and compliance trainings.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually.
- Excellent communication skills – oral and written – and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish relationships of trust and collaboration.
- The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions.
- Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Direct Supervisory Experience.
- Preferred experience in a matrixed organization.
- 6-8 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience.
- Ability to be flexible in any cross capabilities industry segments.
- US Work Authorization required.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Relevant hospital operations experience directing a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management, OR
- Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on cost of care, workforce management, and/or supply chain services.
- Specific experience in cost and expense management within administrative and corporate functions.
- Expertise managing cost structures and improving operational workflows within post-acute settings (e.g., SNF, long-term care, home health, rehab) [not required].
- Seeking specific clinical leadership experience in multiple and varied care settings with a focus on care delivery optimization and redesign, talent strategy to include workforce planning, and promoting innovative digital strategies to improve care.
COMPENSATION
- The estimated base salary range for this job is $145,000 - $185,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $166,750 - $231,250. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
Position Level
Manager
Country
United States of America
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Verify your degree matches the role
H-1B approval for Healthcare Consultant positions turns on the specialty occupation test. Pull the O*NET profile for your exact job code to confirm the degree requirement is specific, not broad. A generic business or management degree may trigger an RFE if the consulting work is clinical or policy-focused.
Search LCA filings to find active sponsors
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter LCA filings by the Healthcare Consultant SOC code. Employers who filed recently are already set up to sponsor and understand the process. This cuts your shortlist to firms with a proven filing track record before you apply.
Target employers by Migrate Mate to check sponsorship history
Run your Healthcare Consultant job search through Migrate Mate, which surfaces verified DOL Labor Condition Application filing history by employer and role. You'll see which consulting firms and health systems have sponsored this title before, so you're not guessing at sponsorship willingness during interviews.
Document your consulting work for specialty occupation proof
Gather engagement letters, project scopes, and deliverables that show your work required specialized healthcare knowledge, not just general business skills. USCIS adjudicators scrutinize consulting petitions closely, and specific evidence of clinical, regulatory, or payer expertise strengthens the specialty occupation argument significantly.
Negotiate timing around the H-1B cap and premium processing
Cap-subject Healthcare Consultant roles must register in the March lottery for an October 1 start. If you're already on OPT or another status, ask employers whether they'll file with premium processing to compress the approval window and reduce your gap between offer acceptance and authorization.
Clarify employer structure before accepting an offer
Large consulting firms often place Healthcare Consultants at client sites, which can complicate the LCA's work location requirement. Confirm with the employer whether the LCA will cover the client site address and whether a new LCA is required each time your placement changes.
H-1B Visa Healthcare Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Healthcare Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the role is defined. USCIS requires that a Healthcare Consultant position normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, such as health administration, public health, clinical informatics, or a clinical discipline. Roles framed as general management consulting without a specific healthcare degree requirement are more vulnerable to RFEs. The job description and the employer's hiring history both factor into the adjudication.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for Healthcare Consultant roles?
Healthcare consulting firms, hospital systems, managed care organizations, and government contractors with health-sector practices are the most common H-1B sponsors for this title. Boutique advisory firms focused on payer strategy, revenue cycle, or regulatory compliance also file regularly. Use Migrate Mate to browse Healthcare Consultant openings filtered by verified LCA filing history, so you're targeting employers already set up to sponsor.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Healthcare Consultant employer mid-year?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed, provided your prior H-1B was approved and you're moving to a same or similar occupational classification. Your new employer files a new I-129 and LCA. You don't need to wait for approval to begin, but the new position still needs to meet the specialty occupation standard.
How does client-site placement affect my H-1B as a Healthcare Consultant?
When a consulting firm places you at a hospital or health plan client site, the LCA must list that client site as a worksite. If your placement changes to a new location in a different metropolitan statistical area, a new or amended LCA is typically required. USCIS has scrutinized third-party placement arrangements in consulting, so your employer should document that they control your day-to-day work and that the role meets specialty occupation criteria at each site.
What happens to my H-1B status if my consulting engagement ends between client projects?
H-1B workers in a bona fide employment relationship are entitled to pay during nonproductive periods caused by the employer, such as a gap between consulting engagements. Your employer's obligation to maintain your status continues during bench time. If the firm terminates your employment, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer, change status, or depart. Document any bench periods in writing with your employer.