Webinar: Private Equity in Healthcare: Where Is It Heading?

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
1:00p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific - 90-minutes

Overview

Private equity firms have been key contributors to many successful healthcare businesses over the decades. Their role in the sector has become much more pronounced in recent years, with some companies acquiring medical groups, outpatient surgical centers and even hospital networks outright. The number of physician practices owned by private equity firms increased seven-fold between 2012 and 2021. Today, Nearly 500 hospitals nationwide are owned by private equity firms.

Complete ownership by such firms is often accompanied by an introduction of business efficiencies that may clash with the values of the clinicians and management of these organizations. Physician workloads may increase while time with patients decline; capital needs may be deferred and overall finances may be impacted.

The acquisition of what is now known as Steward Health by Cerberus Capital Management is an example of what can go wrong. Ownership sold off Steward’s real estate and saddled it with a large debt that eventually bankrupted one of the largest hospital systems in New England. Hospitals and systems owned by other private equity firms have encountered similar issues.

Is Steward the future for other healthcare organizations managed by private equity firms, or was it an exception?

Please join us for this 90-minute event with Jane Zhu, M.D., Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, Oregon Health & Science University; Jerry Seelig, Founder/CEO, Seelig + Cussigh HCO; and Ron Shinkman, Journalist.

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Learning Objectives

• The aims of private equity firms working in the healthcare and how they select acquisitions and startups
• What private equity in healthcare has achieved to date – positive and negative
• How the use of private equity in healthcare has changed over the years
• What the future for private equity in healthcare holds
  

Potential Audience

• Health Plan Executives
• Medicaid Program Managers and Officials
• Healthcare Academics and Researchers
• Hospital Executives
• Physicians and Physician Executives
• Public Policy Leaders
  

Faculty

Jane Zhu, M.D Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, Oregon Health & Science University

Jane M. Zhu, MD, MPP, MSHP, is a primary care physician and associate professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. She is core faculty at the university’s Center for Health Systems Effectiveness and holds a secondary appointment in health systems management and policy at the OHSU-Portland State University School of Public Health. She also is an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Zhu's research centers on healthcare access and quality, particularly for mental/behavioral health services, as well as the effects of provider incentives and organization on healthcare delivery. Her research on private equity in the U.S. healthcare system has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and JAMA Psychiatry.

Dr. Zhu earned dual degrees in medicine and public policy from Harvard Medical School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She earned a bachelor’s degree in global health and international development from Duke University, where she also conducted research as a Fulbright fellow.

Jerry Seelig Founder/CEO, Seelig + Cussigh HCO

Jerry Seelig is the founder and chair Seelig+Cussigh HCO LLC (S+C), which provides a wide range of monitoring and interim management services to health care providers, the federal and state courts, and governmental agencies. For over 15 years, the firm has monitored and/or interim managed providers, payers, and healthcare and skilled nursing facilities. The firm has worked closely with and has time and again earned the respect of attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice, the States’ Attorneys General, The Office of Inspector General for HHS, State Medical Boards, California and other State and local Health Departments, and other regulatory and monitoring agencies responsible for health and senior care.

In over 50 cases and professional engagements, Jerry Seelig has served in Monitoring and Interim Management roles both in and out of the Bankruptcy Court including Patient Care Ombudsman, Chapter 11 Trustee, Receiver, Chief Responsible Officer, and California Health Care Temporary Manager. Recently, as Director of Tenor Health Foundation and Tenor Health Sharon, he served as one of the leads onsite for the reopening of Sharon Hospital Pennsylvania. Sharon was the last of the Steward Health Bankruptcy Hospitals to be sold to a successor owner operators. In Sharon, current efforts around the country, and his work in and out of the Courts has informed him of the potential and real dangers created by equity investments.

Jerry is a member of the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court Mediator Panel and has appeared on multiple state and local bar association panels and continuing education programs.  Jerry served as consultant until his recent retirement, to John Baackes, the CEO of LA Care, the Largest Medicaid Managed Care Plan in the U.S.

Ron Shinkman, Journalist and Advocate

Ron Shinkman is a longtime healthcare journalist. He served as West Coast Bureau Chief of Modern Healthcare magazine and covered healthcare for the Los Angeles Business Journal prior to that. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine and Upworthy Science. He currently covers health insurers and policy for the Financial Times publication Health Payer Specialist. Shinkman has a master’s degree from California State University and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Registration Details

• Live Webinar: $249
• Webinar Recording: $249
• Live Webinar and video Recording: $349 for attendees

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