Huron Consulting Group : Announces New Huron Healthcare Performance Solutions Leader

Gallas to Lead Huron Healthcare's Performance Solutions Focusing on Sustainable Revenue and Expense Improvements for Hospital and Health Systems

Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that Jim Gallas has joined the Company as a managing director in its Huron Healthcare practice. Gallas will lead Huron Healthcare's newly created Performance solutions service line, which encompasses Revenue, Non-Labor and Workforce solutions.

"As hospitals and academic medical centers face continuing reductions in reimbursement and changes to their business model, there will be increasing pressure to identify and implement fundamental changes to make healthcare delivery more efficient," said Gordon Mountford, executive vice president, Huron Healthcare. "Jim will provide leadership to help our clients align revenue and expenses by streamlining processes and enhancing their operations."

Gallas has more than 25 years of healthcare operations experience assisting organizations achieve peak financial performance. Gallas joins Huron Healthcare from Apria Healthcare where he served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the home health services provider. Prior to that position, he served in healthcare leadership roles for both KPMG and BearingPoint. At Huron Healthcare, Gallas will lead the Performance solutions service line focused on providing sustainable revenue and expense improvements for healthcare providers.

"Increasing revenues and margins while controlling expenses will be paramount as hospitals and health systems continue to address economic pressures and healthcare reform initiatives," said Jim Gallas. "This is a challenging time for many healthcare organizations, and I'm excited to join the Huron Healthcare team to help clients tackle these issues and develop innovative solutions."

About Huron Healthcare

Huron Healthcare partners with clients to provide comprehensive performance improvement solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses, and increase physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include national and regional integrated healthcare systems, leading academic medical centers, community hospitals and physician practices. Modern Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2011 list of the top 20 largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. The Company teams with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, Fortune 500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

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