One Trusted Advisor.
A Full Network of Expertise.

Physician leaders need more than another consultant. They need a strategic partner who understands healthcare operations, financial pressure, growth decisions, staffing challenges, risk, and long-term practice success.

Pullum Advisory Group is a boutique healthcare advisory firm led by Philip R. Pullum, MHA, bringing more than 35 years of healthcare and operations expertise to independent medical practices and healthcare organizations nationwide.

35+ Years of Healthcare & Operations Expertise
Boutique Advisory for Medical Practices & Healthcare Organizations
Based in Phoenix, Serving Clients On-Site & Virtually Nationwide
Personally Led by the Principal Consultant

Protecting the Practice You Built and the Future You’re Working Toward

Healthcare is changing faster than many physician leaders can manage alone. Reimbursement pressure, staffing gaps, operational inefficiencies, compliance risk, succession questions, and growth opportunities can all compete for attention at the same time.

Most practices do not need another vendor giving isolated advice.

They need one trusted advisor who can see the complete picture, identify what matters most, and coordinate the right resources to move the practice forward.

Pullum Advisory Group provides executive guidance, objective insight, and practical implementation support to help healthcare organizations improve performance, strengthen profitability, and build lasting organizational success.

Operations
Financial Performance
Growth & Transition
Compliance & Risk
Leadership Support

Advisory Services Built Around the Real Needs of Healthcare Practices

Pullum Advisory Group supports physician leaders and healthcare organizations through three core service lines. Each engagement is designed to bring clarity, structure, and actionable direction to the business side of healthcare.

Strategic Advisory Services

Executive-level guidance for practice leaders making important business decisions. We help healthcare organizations evaluate direction, improve leadership alignment, plan for growth, prepare for transition, and move forward with greater confidence.

Practice Assessment Services

Objective, in-depth evaluation of practice operations, financial performance, workflow gaps, and organizational risk. Our assessments identify barriers to success and create a practical roadmap for improvement, which reflects the existing service page’s focus on identifying gaps, vulnerabilities, opportunities, and corrective action. 

Practice Management Consulting

Hands-on consulting support across the key operational areas that affect practice performance. This includes people services, finance, risk management, transition services, real estate, branding and marketing, information technology, and education.

Our Approach

Senior-Level Guidance Without the Bloated Consulting Model

Pullum Advisory Group gives physician leaders direct access to experienced healthcare business leadership, supported by a carefully selected network of specialized professionals.

Every engagement is personally led by the principal consultant. When a practice needs specialized support, Pullum Advisory Group coordinates vetted strategic partners who bring focused expertise in the right areas at the right time.

This model provides senior-level attention, objective advice, and practical solutions – without unnecessary handoffs.

Assess the Practice

We evaluate current operations, performance, risks, goals, and opportunities. 

Define the Roadmap

We identify priorities, clarify next steps, and align the strategy with the practice’s definition of success. 

Coordinate Execution

We help guide implementation, bring in specialized resources when needed, and keep progress accountable. 

Built for Healthcare Leaders Who Need Clear Business Direction

Pullum Advisory Group works with healthcare practices and organizations at different stages of business growth, change, and operational complexity.

Medical Practices

For independent practices looking to improve operations, profitability, and long-term stability.

Physician Groups

For provider-led organizations balancing clinical leadership with business performance.

Private Practice Owners

For owners making decisions about growth, staffing, transition, succession, or sale.

Healthcare Organizations

For healthcare businesses that need experienced operational and strategic guidance.

Start-Up Practices

For new practices that need structure, planning, and business fundamentals built correctly from the start.

Practices Preparing for Growth, Transition, or Sale

For organizations evaluating expansion, private equity opportunities, succession, or ownership change.

Trusted by Healthcare Business Leaders

Beracah Stortvedt, Executive Vice President

Philip is the perfect business partner. He is thoughtful, strategic, hardworking, responds in a timely fashion, and is constantly fighting for the best for his doctors and employees. At the same time, he is understanding and helpful to his external business partners, which makes them want to work harder to help him succeed.

Healthcare and Digital Health Practice Group- Marsh McClennan Agency-West

Christian Gitersonke, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

I have had the pleasure of working directly and indirectly with Philip on multiple projects spanning across multiple states in multiple medical disciplines. In my 30 plus years of experience in healthcare, I have not found anyone with better instincts, deeper insights, and analytics to back up his proven methods for organizing, structuring, restructuring, and execution of transformative ideas that actually work.  

Whether it is a top-down company culture rehab, finding innovative approaches to solving long-term problems, or inspiring leadership in making difficult decisions, Pullum Advisory Group is the only place we recommend. Pullum Advisory Group gets it right every time with sound processes, well thought out ideas, and a revealing formal evaluation tool. They are  a strategic partner in getting results.

With experience that speaks for itself, any healthcare organization will benefit in many ways from engaging with Philip and Pullum Advisory.

AR Rescue, Inc.

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Healthcare Business Guidance Led by Real Executive Experience

Pullum Advisory Group is led by Philip R. Pullum, MHA, President and CEO. Philip brings decades of healthcare leadership and operations experience, including executive roles in home health, teleradiology, national medical practice operations, and business ownership.

His work is grounded in practical leadership, operational excellence, and a deep understanding of the non-clinical challenges that affect medical practices every day. 

Insights for Stronger Healthcare Practices

Practical guidance for physician leaders, practice owners, and healthcare organizations navigating growth, operations, transition, and performance improvement.

Insights

Strategic thinking for healthcare business leaders.

Practice Growth Resources

Guidance for improving structure, scalability, and long-term performance.

Healthcare Business Resources

Tools and perspective for managing the business side of medicine.

More Resources

Explore insights, guides, and tools across operations, finance, growth, and more

Frequently Asked Questions

Pullum Advisory Group helps medical practices, physician groups, private practice owners, and healthcare organizations improve the business side of healthcare. Services include strategic advisory, practice assessments, and practice management consulting across operations, finance, staffing, risk, growth, transition planning, and more.

Pullum Advisory Group works with independent medical practices, physician groups, private practice owners, healthcare organizations, start-up practices, and practices preparing for growth, transition, succession, or sale.

Pullum Advisory Group uses a boutique advisory model. Every engagement is personally led by the principal consultant, with specialized experts brought in only when needed. This gives clients senior-level guidance, objective advice, and access to a broader network without the handoffs or overhead of a large consulting firm.

Pullum Advisory Group helps with operational inefficiencies, staffing and people challenges, financial performance, risk management, succession planning, growth strategy, practice transitions, real estate decisions, branding and marketing direction, technology needs, and leadership alignment.

No. Pullum Advisory Group is based in Phoenix, Arizona, but serves healthcare practices and organizations nationwide through both on-site and virtual advisory support.

A practice assessment is an objective review of the organization’s current operations, performance, gaps, risks, and opportunities. The goal is to identify what is holding the practice back and provide a clear roadmap for improvement.

Yes. Pullum Advisory Group works with practice owners and healthcare leaders who are preparing for transition, succession, growth, or potential private equity opportunities. The focus is on helping the organization become stronger, more organized, and better positioned for the next stage.

Pullum Advisory Group provides both strategic guidance and practical implementation support. The firm helps define the plan, coordinate the right resources, and support execution so the practice can move from ideas to measurable progress.

Pullum Advisory Group serves as the central strategic advisor. When a client needs focused expertise, such as legal, finance, HR, technology, marketing, compliance, or real estate support, the firm coordinates vetted specialists who fit the specific need.

The first step is to request a consultation. Pullum Advisory Group will learn more about your practice, your current challenges, and your goals, then recommend the right next step based on where your organization is today.