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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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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
At Huron, a Senior Director leads with expertise and collaboration, partnering with Huron and client leaders to create sustainable solutions that drive meaningful results. As a Senior Director with our Healthcare team, you will lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes. You’ll manage engagement-wide economics, apply critical thinking to quantify benefits, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.
Your role will foster a supportive, inclusive environment, empowering team members and creating a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued. You will build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives. This allows you to make an impact and provides career opportunities both within and beyond your areas of expertise. If you’re passionate about driving impactful solutions and believe in the power of collaboration, Huron offers a rewarding path forward.
As the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director in Mid Revenue Cycle, you will:
- Ensure the smooth functioning of mid revenue cycle processes, including coding, charge capture, revenue integrity, and payer reimbursement.
- Monitor and improve financial metrics such as improved charge capture, case mix index, late charges, DNFB, and net revenue enhancement.
- Lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating collaborative, high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes.
- Manage engagement-wide economics, including budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing.
- Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.
- Communicate effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage client expectations, delivering impactful presentations and proposals.
- Build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives.
- Participate in and contribute to team sales efforts for mid revenue cycle solutions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and executing revenue cycle improvement projects, including service capture, CDM, coding, billing, and reimbursement processes.
- Strong understanding of strategies and methodologies for enhancing revenue cycle operations, such as process redesign, technology enhancement, workflow automation, and performance management.
- 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.
- Direct supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- US Work Authorization required.
COMPENSATION
- The estimated base salary range for this job is $225,000 - $275,000. 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 $281,000 - $371,000. 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.
LOCATION
United States of America
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
At Huron, a Senior Director leads with expertise and collaboration, partnering with Huron and client leaders to create sustainable solutions that drive meaningful results. As a Senior Director with our Healthcare team, you will lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes. You’ll manage engagement-wide economics, apply critical thinking to quantify benefits, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.
Your role will foster a supportive, inclusive environment, empowering team members and creating a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued. You will build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives. This allows you to make an impact and provides career opportunities both within and beyond your areas of expertise. If you’re passionate about driving impactful solutions and believe in the power of collaboration, Huron offers a rewarding path forward.
As the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director in Mid Revenue Cycle, you will:
- Ensure the smooth functioning of mid revenue cycle processes, including coding, charge capture, revenue integrity, and payer reimbursement.
- Monitor and improve financial metrics such as improved charge capture, case mix index, late charges, DNFB, and net revenue enhancement.
- Lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating collaborative, high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes.
- Manage engagement-wide economics, including budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing.
- Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.
- Communicate effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage client expectations, delivering impactful presentations and proposals.
- Build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives.
- Participate in and contribute to team sales efforts for mid revenue cycle solutions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and executing revenue cycle improvement projects, including service capture, CDM, coding, billing, and reimbursement processes.
- Strong understanding of strategies and methodologies for enhancing revenue cycle operations, such as process redesign, technology enhancement, workflow automation, and performance management.
- 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.
- Direct supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- US Work Authorization required.
COMPENSATION
- The estimated base salary range for this job is $225,000 - $275,000. 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 $281,000 - $371,000. 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.
LOCATION
United States of America
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Healthcare Consultant
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.