Healthcare Consulting
Healthcare Consulting
Global transformations highlight the need for greater patient / consumer access to wider choices of specialized healthcare services. Stackpole & Associates has been helping specialty health practices and providers find new prospects, optimize brands, and increase revenue opportunities for over 30 years.
Stackpole’s experienced team uses science-based, strategy-driven research, consulting, training, and organizational development to identify and facilitate effective ways to take organizations to the next level…rapidly, efficiently, and affordably. We consistently produce high value for our clients through combined intelligence, integrity, resources, and quality.
Global transformations highlight the need for greater patient / consumer access to wider choices of specialized healthcare services. Stackpole & Associates has been helping specialty health practices and providers find new prospects, optimize brands, and increase revenue opportunities for over 30 years.
Stackpole’s experienced team uses science-based, strategy-driven research, consulting, training, and organizational development to identify and facilitate effective ways to take organizations to the next level…rapidly, efficiently, and affordably. We consistently produce high value for our clients through combined intelligence, integrity, resources, and quality.
Services
Market Research
We work closely with clients to design and implement approaches that clients accept and trust, and produce bottom line results.
Strategic Planning
We provide expert guidance in crafting compelling marketing strategies and plans tailored to the unique needs of healthcare, health tourism, and aging services organizations.
Marketing
Stackpole & Associates specializes in industry-specific Direct to Consumer (D2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing solutions.
Sales
Stackpole & Associates designs, implements and monitors the effectiveness of sales systems built around the applications of key influence factors.
Organizational Development
Stackpole & Associates works with its clients to map out, understand, and effectively manage cultures.
Training
Stackpole & Associates offers a variety of training options that can be to suit your needs.
What Our Clients Say
“Thank you to all for your hard work, persistence and commitment to excellence. I could not be happier with the process and the product at this point. You have exceeded my expectations!”
“Once again, Irving, thank you for your professional contributions to Masonicare’s marketing efforts and I look forward to working further with you in the future.”
“Stackpole Associates truly provided us with a ‘one stop shop’ suite of marketing services and gave us all the value we could have hoped for in a working relationship.”
What Our Clients Say
“Thank you to all for your hard work, persistence and commitment to excellence. I could not be happier with the process and the product at this point. You have exceeded my expectations!”
“Once again, Irving, thank you for your professional contributions to Masonicare’s marketing efforts and I look forward to working further with you in the future.”
“Stackpole Associates truly provided us with a ‘one stop shop’ suite of marketing services and gave us all the value we could have hoped for in a working relationship.”
Resources
Register for “Rocky Shoals: Navigating Medicare, Medicaid, and the Future of Long-Term Care” Nov. 18, 12 PM ET
The long-term care sector is entering its most dangerous stretch of water in a decade. Medicare rates are rising on paper. Underneath, the Medicaid financing that pays for most long-term care is being restructured, and the rocks are in sight. On October 1, 2026, the FY 2027 SNF final rule raised Medicare Part A rates […]
Rocky Shoals Ahead: What Long-Term Care Leaders Must Do Before the Medicaid Tide Goes Out
By Irving Stackpole and John Sheridan, Stackpole & Associates Sailors know that the most dangerous water is rarely the storm. It is the calm stretch over rocks that sit just below the surface. Long-term care is in that stretch now. The headline numbers look reassuring. On July 29, 2026, CMS finalized a 2.4% increase to […]
Internalizing Resilience: An Action Plan for Hospitals, Providers, and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs)
Cross-border volume and revenue per case are growing in medical travel. Capacity is being added, and international patient departments are busy again in many locations. Yet almost every destination program now depends on conditions over which it has no control: a handful of air corridors, one or two source countries, a small set of referral […]
The $38 Billion Detour: What Four Decades of Health Information Technology Bought – and What It Didn’t
The United States bought the terminals. It never finished the cables. (Illustration created for this article.) Two numbers should frame every conversation about health information technology in the United States. The first: 9%. That was the share of American hospitals operating even a basic electronic health record in 2008, according to the federal government’s […]
What ‘Rendez-Vous de Septembre’ Is Telling Us About the Cross-Border Trade in Medical Services
Every September, several thousand insurance and reinsurance executives take over the hotels along the Monte Carlo waterfront for the “Rendez-Vous de Septembre” — the 68th edition ran from 5 to 9 September this year – and it remains the largest single gathering in the sector. Almost nobody in the room describes what they do as […]
The New Gatekeepers of Medical Tourism: What Happens When AI Chatbots Start Routing Patients Abroad
Get ahead of consumer healthcare AI disruprtions in medical travel markets