Beyond ambition.Delivering results.
Medical expertise combined with strategic clarity.
Providers
The hospital landscape is being redrawn.
We help hospital groups and providers shape what comes next.
Hospital reform is changing which hospital delivers which care – and on what terms. Service groups, new funding mechanisms and the shift towards outpatient care call for decisions that hold up both clinically and commercially. We support boards and management teams in making them, and in seeing them through.
Focus areas
Service portfolio and planning
Defining the medical profile that will carry your hospital forward, from service groups to centres of excellence. Grounded in data, shaped with your clinical leaders.
Masterplan and transformation fund
Translating strategy into a robust medical concept and a site plan worth investing in. From funding applications to masterplanning.
Transformation and turnaround
Restoring financial stability with a clear, credible plan, aligned with IDW S6 where required, and staying the course through implementation.
M&A strategy and integration
Defining the role of each site, designing hospital networks and integrating organisations without losing clinical momentum.
Clinical operations
Emergency department, operating theatres and intensive care as levers for quality and results.
Digital and AI enablement
Unlocking clinical time and securing revenue through ambient scribe, documentation and coding applications.
250+
hospital projects across all ownership types and levels of care.
Public, non-profit and private. Grounded in medical training and clinical experience in visceral and transplant surgery.
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Devices & Technology
Technology opens the door.Hospital economics closes the deal.
We turn product, evidence and pricing into value hospitals will pay for.
As care is reorganised, demand shifts – between sites, between specialties and from inpatient to outpatient settings. We help manufacturers and technology providers see where volumes will move, who decides, and what persuades them.
Focus areas
Growth
Anticipating where regulation, technology and demographics will shift procedure volumes.
Portfolio and M&A
Shaping the portfolio around customer demand, pipeline strength and acquirable assets.
Go-to-market
Building offerings, value propositions and pricing around what matters most to each customer.
Market access
Paving the way to reimbursement, with providers as partners in coding and funding.
Clinical innovation
Translating unmet clinical need into products that fit the workflow at the bedside.
100+
devices and technology projects, from target screening to innovation and go-to-market.
Seen from the customer’s side: surgical practice, 250+ hospital projects and 150+ due diligences.
See your market through your customer’s eyes.
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Investors
The data room shows the price.Clinical reality decides the value.
We bring clinical judgement to every stage of a deal, from thesis to exit.
What the data room cannot show.
Healthcare assets rise and fall on reform, referral patterns and clinical talent – little of which shows in a data room. Every mandate is led personally by a former surgeon and strategy partner.
Focus areas
Investment thesis
Testing sub-sectors and targets against where reform and demand will move.
Due diligence
Reading each business plan as a clinician would, in commercial and medical due diligence.
Value creation
Unlocking the full clinical and operational potential that lifts an asset’s multiple.
Buy-and-build
Identifying, closing and integrating add-ons without losing clinical talent or momentum.
150+
healthcare due diligences.
For financial and strategic investors, across hospitals, outpatient care, manufacturers and digital health.
A live process? Let’s talk in confidence.
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Public sector
Reform sets the framework.Planning shapes the care.
We support ministries, authorities and public owners with independent analysis for hospital planning and reform.
Service groups, provision funding and the Transformation Fund are changing how hospital care is planned, financed and owned. Decisions must hold up clinically, economically and in public. We provide robust evidence, clinical insight and an independent view of what works locally.
Focus areas
Hospital planning
Modelling service groups, capacity and travel times as a sound basis for decisions.
Reform impact
Assessing how service groups and provision funding affect hospitals, regions and budgets.
Transformation Fund
Preparing and appraising proposals that deliver lasting structural change.
Public hospital owners
Guiding municipal, county and university hospitals through strategy, restructuring and mergers.
Regional care networks
Designing cooperation across sites and sectors where no hospital can stand alone.
250+
hospital projects across all ownership types.
From medical concepts for university hospitals to mergers of public hospital networks.
Every mandate is screened for conflicts of interest.
Sound decisions need independent evidence.
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K-Consulting & Management GmbH
25 years.
In the operating theatreand the boardroom.
A physician by training and a strategy partner by profession.
Dr. Kim began in visceral and transplant surgery in Frankfurt, Zurich and Bern. Since 2004, he has advised hospital boards, manufacturers, investors and ministries. He spent a decade at Roland Berger, most recently as Head of the Healthcare Practice, and a decade as Managing Director and Lead Partner of the Provider Sector at BCG. In 2025, he founded K-Consulting & Management GmbH.
A boutique advisory firm by design: small enough to lead every mandate personally, experienced enough to turn it into results.
500+
projects
250+
hospitals
150+
due diligences
100+
devices and technology
Over 20 years of strategy consulting at Roland Berger and BCG.
How we work
Personally led
One senior counterpart from the first question to the final result, with trusted experts added where needed.
Medically grounded
Judgement built from clinical experience, applied to strategy, operations and transactions.
Independent and discreet
No product interests, strict confidentiality, and every mandate screened for conflicts of interest.
Built to be implemented
Concepts shaped with the people who carry them out, and followed through to results.
The partner you meet is the partner you work with.
Let’s connect.
Every enquiry is answered personally and treated in confidence.
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