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
CMS Innovation Center’s Strategic Pivot: Navigating the Shift to “Make America Healthy Again”
On May 13, 2025, CMMI announced their new strategy under the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, indicating a pivot from the previous administration’s system-level transformation approach to individual empowerment and prevention.
Event Recap: Unveiling the Mental Health Parity Index
The Kennedy Forum, Third Horizon, and the AMA unveiled the Mental Health Parity Index, a first-of-its-kind data tool designed to measure how commercial health plans meet mental health and substance use parity requirements.
IL Mental Health Parity Index Shows Real-Time Gaps in Mental Health Care
The Mental Health Parity Index – unveiled today by The Kennedy Forum, alongside strategic partners Third Horizon and the American Medical Association – sheds light on key metrics related to mental health/substance use disorder.