Health Plans
Our work spans Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, commercial and ACA Exchange businesses, and provider-sponsored health plans.
Explore health plan executive search →McGovern Executive Search
Concierge Executive Search for Health Plans and Risk-Bearing Provider Organizations
Critical leadership searches deserve senior attention. MES combines deep healthcare experience with exhaustive search, rigorous vetting, and direct senior-level involvement.
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One accountable relationship.
Direct access to the person leading the search, from the first conversation through the executive’s start date and beyond.
Healthcare experience
Deep healthcare experience. Focused where it matters most.
McGovern Executive Search recruits leaders from the C-suite through VP level across healthcare, with particular depth in health plans and risk-bearing provider organizations.
Within our core markets, that experience spans the major business lines and care models our clients operate, from Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care to physician groups, value-based care, and post-acute care. We also work with MSOs and healthcare services, solutions, and technology companies serving the same ecosystem. We conduct searches nationally across the United States.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 organizations to regional not-for-profits.
The record
Experience measured in outcomes.
Since its founding in 2014, MES has remained deliberately focused on consequential healthcare leadership.
96%Search completion rate since 2014
23+Our founder’s years in healthcare executive search
200+Searches completed by our founder, C-suite through VP level
84Average days from launch to accepted offer
90%+Business generated through prior client and candidate relationships
Core markets
Where our experience runs deepest.
Two core markets, with broad experience across the business lines and care models within each.
Risk-Bearing Provider Organizations
Our work spans primary and specialty physician groups, ACOs and other value-based care models, and post-acute care, including long-term care, home health, hospice, palliative care, and PACE.
Explore value-based care executive search →Additional healthcare experience: MSOs and healthcare services, solutions, and technology companies serving health plans and risk-bearing provider organizations.
The MES model
Knowledge of the market is a head start, not a shortcut.
MES brings deep healthcare context to every engagement, then does the exhaustive work required to identify and rigorously vet the right executives.
Deep Industry Immersion
23+ years of healthcare market context before the search begins.
Pinpoint Precision
Every executive presented has been rigorously vetted against the specific needs of the organization and role.
Sustained Execution
The search remains active, exhaustive, and accountable until the right executive is secured.
Concierge-Level Engagement
Clients work directly with Steve McGovern throughout the engagement and beyond, with consistent access, communication, and a relationship that continues after the hire.
Selected client experience
From Fortune 500 organizations to regional not-for-profits.
Representative organizations MES has served.
Founder-led by design
The person you retain leads the search.
Steve McGovern has spent 23+ years in healthcare executive search and works directly with clients and candidates on every MES engagement. Clients have direct access to him through the executive’s start date and beyond. MES is built around long-term relationships, not transactions that end when a search is completed.
Meet Steve McGovern →Facing a critical leadership need?
Start with a confidential conversation about the organization, the role, and what success requires.
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