Medicaid Technology Consulting
Helping government agencies and healthcare technology companies make better decisions about Medicaid Enterprise Systems.
Services
Strategic Growth Advisory
Helping organizations successfully enter, expand, and compete within the Medicaid market. We advise on market strategy, competitive positioning, capture planning, strategic partnerships, contracting approaches, and long-term growth. Connecting business strategy with the realities of how state Medicaid agencies evaluate and procure technology and services.
Product Strategy & Advisory
Helping organizations develop products that align with the operational, regulatory, and business realities of Medicaid programs. We work across product strategy, solution design, feature prioritization, workflows, use cases, demonstrations, and implementation approaches to ensure solutions address real agency needs while strengthening market differentiation.
Modernization Roadmaps & Strategic Planning
Helping public agencies and healthcare technology organizations plan and execute complex modernization initiatives. We develop practical roadmaps that integrate technology, artificial intelligence, analytics, modularity, interoperability, process transformation, organizational readiness, and implementation sequencing into a coherent long-term strategy aligned with program objectives.
Built on Experience · Focused on Results
Laidlaw Christie is a strategic advisory firm helping government agencies, healthcare technology companies, and emerging innovators navigate the Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) market.
Our work combines executive strategy, product leadership, growth advisory, AI, and deep operational experience gained over nearly three decades leading some of the industry's largest technology organizations and modernization initiatives.
Our advice is grounded in firsthand executive experience. We have designed Medicaid platforms, built advisory businesses, led market growth organizations, developed cloud-native products, supported acquisitions, and helped organizations compete for and deliver some of the largest healthcare technology programs in North America.
Built on Experience · Focused on Results
Our experience includes
- Building cloud-native Medicaid platforms, payer systems, analytics solutions, and product organizations at EDS, HP, HPE, and DXC Technology (now Gainwell).
- Growing NTT DATA's Government Consulting & Advisory business into one of the nation's leading Medicaid advisory practices while serving Medicaid Directors, CIOs, CTOs, and executive leadership across more than twenty states.
- Leading business development, growth strategy, market intelligence, capture, solutioning, and strategic partnerships across Acentra Health's healthcare technology and services portfolio.
- Advising organizations on modernization strategy, cloud adoption, interoperability, procurement, AI, organizational transformation, and long-term enterprise planning.
- Supporting executive decision-making involving product strategy, market positioning, competitive strategy, partnerships, acquisitions, and investment.
Today, Laidlaw Christie helps clients anticipate change, make better strategic decisions, accelerate growth, and build enduring competitive advantage.
Built on Experience · Focused on Results
The common thread throughout our experience is not simply Medicaid, it is transformation.
Throughout nearly three decades, we have consistently joined organizations at pivotal moments of change: when markets were evolving, products needed reinvention, businesses required new growth engines, or technology demanded a different approach. Whether rebuilding North America's leading outdoor recreation platform, introducing product management into a global e-commerce company, launching one of the industry's first cloud-native Medicaid platforms, growing one of the nation's largest Medicaid advisory practices, or reshaping growth strategy for a national healthcare company, the objective has always been the same:
Create stronger organizations with better products, faster growth, and sustainable competitive advantage.
That philosophy is the foundation of Laidlaw Christie. We believe the best strategic advice comes from leaders who have built businesses, created products, advised government executives, won complex procurements, managed large organizations, and remained accountable for outcomes. Every engagement draws on that experience to help clients make confident decisions in an increasingly complex space.