title: Private equity investment in health care services.
abstract: Sophisticated private equity investors in health services provide venture capital for early-stage companies, growth capital for mid-stage companies, and equity capital for buyouts of mid-stage and mature companies. They pursue opportunities in provider sectors that are large and have a stable reimbursement environment, such as acute care services; sectors with room to execute consolidation strategies, such as labs; alternative-site sectors, such as "storefront" medicine; and clinical services, such as behavioral health, that are subject to profitably increasing quality and lowering costs. The innovations created through private equity investments could challenge established health services organizations.
authors.affiliation: Cain Brothers and Company, New York City, USA.
authors.forename: Catherine J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rudsenske
authors.forename: James S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Vaughan
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007449:Investments; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D020399:Practice Management / Q000191:economics; D017149:Private Sector; D014481:United States