Supporting the life cycle
of health technologies

A global value and access consultancy helping organisations generate evidence, demonstrate value and support patient access

How do you demonstrate value and support patient access?

From early development through to launch, organisations make decisions that shape future value, reimbursement and patient access.

Those decisions are often made amid evolving stakeholder expectations and an increasingly complex healthcare landscape.

We help organisations navigate that landscape with confidence.

Framework

Turning insight to action

Our guiding framework, Explore • Build • Optimise, helps organisations generate evidence, demonstrate value and support patient access.

Explore

In the Explore phase, we help clients identify, test and prioritise opportunities across the clinical and commercial landscape to inform business decisions.

Build

In the Build phase, we help clients define and develop evidence generation strategies to demonstrate patient-relevant value.

Optimise

In the Optimise phase, we help clients illustrate and leverage the clinical, economic and humanistic value of their products to drive patient access and uptake.

Services

Expertise across value, access and pricing

We support organisations across global healthcare markets, from core value and access strategy through to specialised priorities and emerging market requirements.

Value & Access Advisory

Supporting value, access and pricing priorities across global healthcare markets.

European Launch & Access

Flexible support across EU launch planning, value and access strategy, and implementation.

Pricing Strategy & MFN

Understand how pricing decisions in one market may affect value, access and pricing elsewhere.

JCA Readiness & PICO Strategy

Inform evidence planning, PICO strategy and future JCA readiness.

MedTech Value & Access

Strengthen evidence, value demonstration and access for medical technologies.

JCA Readiness &
PICO Strategy

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MFN-Ready Global
Pricing Strategy

We design evidence strategies that anticipate every objection before the first meeting takes place.

European Launch &
Access Partner

We translate complex data into a narrative that secures pricing, reimbursement, and patient access.

Community

Global stakeholder community

Our community includes payers, physicians and health economic advisors, with perspectives spanning national HTA agencies and ministries of health to regional and local decision-makers. This includes a diverse payer network covering reimbursement, procurement and pathway stakeholders across public and private healthcare systems.

The map highlights the markets where we maintain active network presence and ongoing stakeholder engagement.

Oceania

Our Oceania network spans key institutions across health systems, including former senior members and advisors of health ministries, and national HTA and pricing bodies. It also includes members of state level formulary groups, clinical advisors, and senior hospital pharmacy/formulary stakeholders.

Asia

Our Asian network spans key institutions and decision-making perspectives across national and regional health systems, including former senior members and advisors of regulatory and health security authorities, HTA and pricing bodies, and national policy institutions. It also includes clinical specialists, academic health economists, and policy advisors, as well as chief and senior pharmacists and physicians across primary, secondary, tertiary, and private hospitals.

Europe

Our European network spans key institutions across health systems, including former senior members and advisors of health ministries, and national/regional HTA and pricing bodies. It also includes senior clinical, health economic, and policy advisors, hospital formulary stakeholders, and procurement specialists (including tendering).

Africa

Our African network includes senior advisors from health ministries, regulatory and HTA bodies, and hospital pharmacy/formulary stakeholders.

South America

Our Latin American network spans national and regional health systems, including former members and senior advisors of health ministries, regulatory authorities, HTA and pricing bodies, and commercial insurance organisations. It also includes policy stakeholders, clinical advisors, and senior hospital pharmacy/formulary stakeholders across public and private hospitals.

North America

Our US network spans key institutions including senior members of national and regional commercial insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, integrated delivery networks, clinical pathway organisations, and hospital P&T committees. It also includes former members of CMS and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)

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Testimonials

What our clients say

Feedback from clients across pharma, biotech and MedTech.

"They cut through the noise and found the signal. Our market access strategy is now a straight line, not a maze. They cut through the noise and found the signal. Our market access strategy is now a straight line, not a maze."
Dr. Aris Thorne
CEO, Valorum Therapeutics
"They cut through the noise and found the signal. Our market access strategy is now a straight line, not a maze."
Dr. Aris Thorne
CEO, Valorum Therapeutics
Is has been a pleasure working with Lightning Health - they are responsive, reliable, comprehensive and thorough with their work. That's what you're looking for from a consultant, and thats why we have been working on several projects with them.
Vice President, Business Development
Global pharmaceutical company
Having worked with several firms in this area and being on the other side myself, I have to say that the team at Lightning Health really raises the standards bar. They have helped me on several different projects, always with a very pragmatic approach and delivering fantastic results. I can't recommend this firm highly enough.
Senior Market Access Manager
Global pharmaceutical company
It has been a pleasure working with Lightning Health. Professionalism, communication skills, dilligent, supportive, client focus and knowledgeable are adjectives that flow naturally over my keyboard!
Chief Executive Officer
Biotech company
Having worked closely with Lightning Health over several years, I can confidently say they have been an exceptional strategic partner. Beyond their deep, practical expertise in rare disease pricing and reimbursement, they are incredibly friendly, easy to work with, and truly customer-centric. No matter how complex our global market access challenges have been, they have stepped up to help us navigate them with clarity. They have a unique ability to translate intricate international access pathways into clear, actionable commercial roadmaps. Rachel, Andrew, and the entire team are proactive, agile, and collaborative, delivering high calibre insights that help inform complex decision making. I couldn’t recommend them more highly.
Market Access Director
Medium-sized pharmaceutical company
It has been a pleasure working with Lightning Health - they are responsive, reliable, comprehensive, and thorough in their work. That’s what you’re looking for from a consultant, and that’s why we have been working on several projects already with them now.
Vice President, Business Development
Global pharmaceutical company
I’ve worked with Lightning Health on many projects now and they just get it! They listen to the problems we’re facing, quickly get to grips with the subject area and always come back with solutions built around our needs. Easy to work with from start to finish
Global Head of Health Economics and Market Access
MedTech company

Get in touch

Speak to one of our experts about your value and access needs.

FAQs

Understanding the factors that shape patient access

Explore the considerations that influence patient access.

What evidence will stakeholders accept?

Evidence requirements can vary between payers, HTA bodies, healthcare professionals and procurement stakeholders. Understanding which clinical, economic and real-world evidence requirements are most likely to influence decisions can help organisations prioritise evidence generation and reduce future access risks.

How can value be demonstrated effectively?

Demonstrating value often requires more than clinical evidence alone. Cost-effectiveness, budget impact, patient outcomes, real-world evidence and implementation considerations may all influence value perception across different stakeholders and markets.

What could affect value, access and pricing?

Evidence gaps, stakeholder expectations, pricing decisions, reimbursement requirements, HTA processes and evolving policy environments can all influence value, access and pricing outcomes. Understanding these factors early can help organisations make more informed strategic decisions and reduce future risks.

How do requirements vary across markets?

Value and access pathways, reimbursement processes and evidence expectations differ across countries and healthcare systems. Understanding these differences can help organisations develop strategies that address both global and local requirements.

How can stakeholder insight and technology improve decision-making?

Understanding stakeholder expectations has always been central to effective value, access and pricing strategy. Advances in data, analytics and AI are creating new ways to identify patterns, assess evidence and explore strategic scenarios. When combined with stakeholder insight and value and access expertise, these capabilities can support more informed and confident decision-making.