Health Care

Hosted by ABI's Business Reorganization Committee This panel of experts will discuss emerging trends from recent restructurings and bankruptcies in the health care industry, with a special focus on hospitals and biotechnology companies.

This session will be divided into three 25-minute mini-panels, with each segment featuring two industry experts from the automotive, real estate and skilled nursing/senior care industries, respectively. The panelists will highlight the latest hurdles these often unpredictable businesses face in a volatile post-COVID-19 economy, including the effects of inflation, ongoing staffing and supply chain issues, potential liquidity crunches and other challenges.

This panel will explore industry trends and commonalities between the parallel issues of failing health care systems and debtors bankrupted by medical debt. The panelists will discuss and debate what could happen when these two debtor groups overwhelm the bankruptcy system, the challenges that health care debtors, consumer debtors and insurance payors face today, and how practitioners across various insolvency disciplines involved in these industries can plan for the future with these trends on the horizon.

Heading into the pandemic, health care was a hot sector in the restructuring landscape. Economic stimulusfunding and a need for health care facilities to address the COVID-19 pandemic led to a slowdown inrestructuring in the sector. However, stimulus funds are now drying up, and health care organizations thatwere struggling operationally or financially heading into the pandemic are facing even more challenges. Thispanel will discuss the nuances of a health care bankruptcies, providing insight into what operators,attorneys, financial advisors, investment bankers and other stakeholders should consider as they prepare totake a health care organization through the bankruptcy process.

This panel will focus on the economics of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and where theyare positioned in the senior living and care industry. Learn how the pandemic and resulting economy haveimpacted CCRCs, and how they are managing the resulting operating challenges. Because CCRCs frequentlyrequire substantial individual financial upfront investment, prospective residents and their heirs may expressconcerns about risks and potential losses in the event of a CCRC bankruptcy. The panelists will explore theseindustry challenges, as well as how a CCRC bankruptcy affects the various case constituents.

Featuring an investor from Frist Cressey Ventures, a partner at Heritage Group and a partner at Cressey & Co.