In today’s rapidly evolving global healthcare landscape, market participants encounter a wealth of potential alongside a diverse range of challenges. We understand the importance of negotiating complex and ever-shifting regulations efficiently when structuring cross-border investments and transactions.
In our Guide, you’ll discover invaluable insights to help navigate the dynamic world of healthcare, unlocking opportunities and understanding the developing regulatory landscape.
McDermott’s signature HPE New York event is right around the corner on October 15, 2021. This year more than ever, it’s a must-attend for private equity investors, healthcare executives, lenders, consultants and leaders across the industry.
Here are the top five reasons you don’t want to miss this exclusive event:
We look forward to virtually welcoming you to HPE New York in just a couple weeks. Click here to register today.
Within this dynamic environment, our health lawyers wield a deep knowledge of how healthcare services, medical technology and pharmaceuticals are delivered around the world, and how the laws that affect those entities and that help drive action are creating the market of tomorrow.
Bringing this experience and commercial focus together we are proud to present the Global Guide to Investing in Healthcare. Our one-stop resource is here to guide you through the healthcare systems of key jurisdictions, helping you to explore the regulation and provision of healthcare services, merger and foreign investment control, anticipated changes in healthcare and life sciences law, and much more.
Click here to visit our interactive report, and start exploring the opportunities and challenges for your business today.
Industry leaders shared first-hand lessons learned from their work on recent innovation related projects. We covered a range of case studies, highlighting lessons learned around mission alignment, conflicts of interest, diligence considerations, data ownership and de-identification, and strategies for protecting a minority investor.
Below are the top takeaways for Hospital and Health System Innovation Summit: Lessons Learned: Diligence, Detours and Data, Oh My, click here to access the full webinar.
Mission Alignment
It is essential for a hospital and health systems to adopt a formal innovation strategic
plan that aligns with its overall strategic mission and vision and clearly articulates it
specific innovation goals and prioritizes focus areas. Hospital and health systems
pursue innovation initiatives largely to support the clinical mission and drive revenue
growth and diversification. “I think that alignment with the strategic mission of the
organization is key because that really drives and helps shape the culture of innovation
as an organization. We define innovation in terms of in three buckets, the research
based, hospital based and external or open innovation,” said Kolaleh Eskandanian,
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Children’s National. “So research based
is the traditional model of a transfer, [...]
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There has been increased interest by hospitals and health systems in creating innovation centers and making innovation center investments, which are helping to transform the healthcare landscape. As they enter this space, hospitals and health systems must first decide how to organize to capitalize on and commercialize innovation opportunities to get innovations into the routine of patient care.
Joined by leaders from Health Innovation Strategies and Winter Street Ventures/Commonwealth Care Alliance, we discussed the fundamental types of investment structures from the health system perspective, including types of vehicles used by health systems, tips for aligning investment priorities with the health system mission, and collaborations with third parties to accelerate innovation.
Below are the top takeaways for Hospital and Health System Innovation Summit: Nuts And Bolts: How to Invest in Innovation, click here to access the full webinar.
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There are many options for structuring an innovation center and there is no one-size-fits-all model.
Innovation centers are often custom-built around the organization’s needs and with the input hospitals and health systems receive from their clinicians, board, patients, and community. Determining what innovation model to pursue involves weighing the amount of financial risk the entity will take on, the complexity of the venture, and the expertise available to guide the [...]
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In this session, health law policy authorities discussed changes likely in 2021 in a Biden Administration and how these changes will impact business objectives and strategies for health industry stakeholders.
Below are the top takeaways for Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business session: Health, click here to access the full webinar.
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COVID-19
If Vice President Biden campaigned on anything, it was a more vigorous response to the pandemic. Look for a Biden Administration to make addressing the spread and restoring the economy top priorities early on. Another relief bill is likely, and maybe even in a lame duck session in 2020, but any relief measure will require Republican and Democratic support. Look at both the House-passed HEROES Act and the Senate Republican HEALS Act as likely starting points for discussion.
Affordable Care Act
Vice President Biden campaigned on sustaining and expanding health insurance coverage by enacting a public option to compete with commercial plans in exchange marketplaces. With Republicans likely to retain control of the Senate, legislative expansions of the ACA are unlikely. Instead, look to a Biden Administration to reverse or revise ACA-related regulations and Executive Orders advanced by the Trump Administration. Still, keep an eye on the Supreme Court’s consideration of California v. Texas, which could call the constitutionality of the ACA into question.
Prescription Drug Pricing
Both parties share the goal of addressing the cost of prescription drugs, and there [...]
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In this lively panel session, global heads of healthcare at top banks analyzed the current market climate for healthcare services investing and provided their invaluable insights on hot sectors, growth strategies and the dealmaking outlook for 2021. McDermott counsel Charlie Ditkoff moderated this panel featuring Daniel Decelles, global co-head of healthcare investment banking at Jefferies; Matthew McAskin, senior managing director at Evercore; Jim Forbes, vice chairman of Morgan Stanley; Mark Francis, managing director and head of the healthcare group at Houlihan Lokey; and Cheairs Porter, head of the healthcare and life sciences group at Harris Williams.
Below are the top takeaways for HPE New York 2020 half day session: Big Bankers Breakfast Discussion, click here to access the full webinar.
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The public markets have recovered remarkably from the lows of March and April 2020 and are currently seeing unprecedented deal activity, Mr. McAskin said. However, amid that activity, “there is no one solution that is working,” he said. “We are seeing financing work, we are seeing creative transaction structures work, and we’re seeing a resurgence of initial public offerings and special purpose acquisition companies like we have not seen for years or for decades. It’s a very confusing time for a lot of people, because we’re seeing these micro-cycles occurring very quickly.”
As might be expected in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, valuations for tech-enabled healthcare businesses have risen significantly this year, and that trend will likely continue into 2021. “I [...]
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In the wake of COVID-19 some health sectors have emerged as hot while others are troubled. Our panel of active investors discussed where the dollars are going and offered insights on why in relation to the events of 2020. McDermott partner Jerry Sokol moderated this dynamic panel featuring Paige Daly, partner at Harvest Partners; Chris Gordon, global head of healthcare and co-head of North America private equity at Bain Capital; Geoff Lieberthal, partner at Two Sigma Impact; and Rob Wolfson, executive managing director and head of H.I.G. Advantage Fund and U.S. Healthcare.
Below are the top takeaways for HPE New York 2020 half day session: The Impact of COVID-19: What’s Hot, What’s Not, click here to access the full webinar.
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COVID-19 has revealed weaknesses in the healthcare system and in healthcare delivery in particular. “One of the most fundamental things that we as healthcare investors all should be thinking about is investing in businesses that are making things better for the entire system—for patients, for providers and for payors,” Ms. Daly said. “That means we should be both raising quality and lowering costs.” These principles are driving some of the most exciting innovation today, particularly in payor services, physician practice management (PPM) and healthcare IT.
Healthcare IT generally and telemedicine specifically are areas of major investment. Dramatically accelerated patient and payor adoption of telehealth has created [...]
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The lasting impact of COVID-19 on healthcare transactions is multifaceted and has rapidly altered the trajectory of the dealmaking landscape as well as business collaborations. On this episode of the After the Curve podcast, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting healthcare transactions today, as well as the outlook for the healthcare deal landscape post-COVID-19. McDermott’s Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Tullio is joined by Jed Spielman and Kevin Miller to discuss topics surrounding the impact of the pandemic on healthcare transactions, including:
Independent physician enterprises continue to experience unprecedented challenges as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges will linger for the foreseeable future and will have lasting impacts on operations and the provision of care. As a result, transactional opportunities have also shifted, and physician enterprises must be prepared to identify and evaluate new opportunities wherever they may occur. Our recent webinar with leaders from Providence St. Joseph Health, SullivanCotter, DMG Physician Organization, Veralon Partners and Golden State Dermatology explores the key challenges facing physician enterprises at this time and what healthcare providers and investors are looking for in transaction partners for today’s healthcare landscape. Click here to listen to the webinar recording and read on for key takeaways from the program.
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