Shubham Singhal is a senior partner in Detroit. Shubham leads McKinsey’s healthcare, public sector and social sector work globally. He serves leading healthcare and social institutions and governments on all top-management agenda issues. His primary areas of focus include strategy, growth, M&A, business building, and large-scale digital and performance transformations. In healthcare, he has extensively served publicly traded and not-for-profit payers as well as public payers for more than 20 years. He also serves providers as well as healthcare technology and pharmacy companies. Shubham also leads the firm’s thinking and research on the future of healthcare in the wake of rapid advancements in digital, advanced analytics, and medical technologies; emergence of new treatments; healthcare reform and regulatory change; the rise of the healthcare consumer; and risk disaggregation and reallocation across the healthcare system.
US healthcare faces a gathering storm of difficulties, including inflation, labor shortages (particularly of nurses and physicians), and endemic Covid-19. Taking action in three areas could help the entire industry rise above the turbulence.