India’s hospital boom: $10 billion global investment fuels growth and cost concerns
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- ✓Global investors spent $10 billion buying stakes in Indian hospital chains over the past five years.
- ✓This capital helped build new facilities, but it also raised concerns about rising costs for patients.
- ✓Joseph Benaven said, “Increasingly, hospitals are judged by return on capital and revenue per occupied bed.”
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- India Economy
Wall Street came to India chasing one of the world’s greatest hospital growth stories. It found something else too: a fight over who will pick up the bill.
Blackstone, KKR, TPG, General Atlantic and other global investors have spent about $10 billion buying stakes in Indian hospital chains over the past five years, according to data compiled by EY. That influx of capital has helped finance new facilities, expensive technology and a wave of consolidation in a country desperately short of hospital beds. It’s also made India one of the world’s most active markets for private-equity-driven hospital consolidation. Although PE-backed operators account for less than 5% of the country’s hospital beds, they command a presence in high-margin specialties such as cardiac surgery and cancer care.
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