Workstream 5: Private Equity Health Investments
Private investments in health that maximize returns to U.S. health status and economical productivity.
Problem Statement
Private equity and venture capital investments in important components of the medical care delivery system represent substantial and growing influences on operations and outcomes. The primary aim of these investments—as with all investment strategies—is to earn profits for investors, and hopefully doing so by improving health outcomes and achievement of patient goals. Some investors hold that their primary aim is to improve outcomes and goals, while hopefully also earning profits. Regardless of starting points, more information is needed on the nature and results of these investments—for individual, family, and community health, and for national productivity and competitiveness.
Workstream Charge
The Private Investments in Health workstream will uplift alignment challenges, opportunities, and impacts related to private equity and venture capital investment in health. Workstream members will produce a background paper that will inform Commission deliberations on the associated opportunities, priorities, and implications dependent on correcting the alignment of values, incentives, policies, and actions.
The paper will:
- review status and trends for private equity and venture capital health investment;
- describe how lack of alignment between private equity/venture capital investment decisions and investments that maximize health hinder national productivity and competitiveness;
- identify salient contributors to the problem;
- identify accountability disconnects;
- estimate the health and economic costs of maintaining the status quo;
- estimate the potential health and economic gains from private equity/venture capital investment in the production of health;
- identify legal, regulatory, or cultural levers to drive the change from where we are now to a better future state; and
- describe promising strategies for marshaling the will to deploy the necessary levers at the right place, at the right time.
Workstream Members
Chair
Members
Contact Information
Questions?
For additional information on workstream activities, contact Amanda Hunt ([email protected]) and Annie Murff ([email protected]).
