Maximizing
Human Potential
Third Horizon is a Chicago-based strategic, boutique advisory firm focused on designing integrated health and social systems so all communities, families, and individuals can thrive. Through its work across three advisory areas – behavioral health, community health, and payment design and analytics – the firm offers a 360º view of complex challenges across three horizons (past, present, and future) to help industry leaders and policymakers interpret signals and trends and develop upstream innovations, strategies, and structural changes that maximize the value of the yearly spend on health care.
Why We’re Different
Our Core Belief
We believe that health is foundational to well-being, social interconnectedness, and economic development.
Our Mission
We push against the status quo by designing integrated health and social systems so that all communities, families, and individuals can thrive.
Our Work
Our advisory areas, partnership with the Health Care Council of Chicago, and convening of the Alliance for Addiction Payment Reform help mission-driven organizations find solutions and drive transformation nationwide.
As we work with our clients to minimize risk and maximize the health of their businesses, the hotline to health + benefits, property/casualty and insurtech intelligence with Third Horizon Strategies is a real advantage. 
THS has been an invaluable partner in helping us stand-up our Building Blocks of Health Reform initiative–from serving as a strategic thought partner in our program development to lending expert analysis and research on policy issues.
Third Horizon Strategies feeds our health policy activities and gives us a window into stakeholder dynamics across the health care industry.
As Seen In
988 Colorado Sandbox Summit: Advancing a Unified Vision for Crisis Care
Third Horizon served as strategic advisor and facilitator for the Sandbox Summit, designing and leading the convening to support meaningful cross-agency collaboration and actionable planning.
The Rural Health Transformation Program: A Necessary Step — But Not Enough to Offset Medicaid Cuts
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) represents one of the largest federal investments ever aimed at strengthening rural health care. However, it does not replace the extensive Medicaid reductions expected under H.R. 1.
Rigor Grounded in Purpose: A Model for Health Care Data Work
As a part of the Health Care Council of Chicago’s Q3 summit, Third Horizon convened a panel of leading data experts who explored what separates effective data work from infrastructure that sits unused.