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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Healthcare Entrepreneur Solicits Family Offices, Others, To Finance Remuneration Revolution

Seeking investors
“I am planning to raise $2-3 million n the fall of 2015 and
investment sizes will likely range from $100,000 to $1,000,000.
In the first half of 2016, I expect to do a $7-$10 million
capital raise with the lead investor committing $3-5 million of
that amount,” he said.
“I want to build a company for the long run. HExL can play a
meaningful role to change the US healthcare system but these
changes will occur at an uncertain pace. It will be important
that financial backers for HExL are also committed to the
long-term business process,” he said.
The challenge
Kimball says the challenge for the healthcare sector in the US –
and its problems are not unique to the country but affect other
developed nations – is stark. At present, 80 per cent of spending
on healthcare in the US is for people with chronic conditions,
such as heart disease, kidney problems and diabetes. The US
spends an astonishing $3 trillion a year on health, or about 18
per cent of gross domestic product – about double the proportion
spent in a country such as Germany.
With that context in mind, Kimball argues that value-based
healthcare, where more treatment is at home, in clinics and via
smartphones apps, means people can get the medical advice and
treatment they want outside of hospital, far cheaper.
A presentation by HExL says that for heart disease care
management, for example, the average total cost of care when done
from home is $3,310, versus $6,399 in hospital. Such cost
differences are already boosting telehealth, and is likely to
expand rapidly in coming years, Kimball said.
Other figures only serve to drive home the need, arguably, for
such a shift in how healthcare is delivered. According HExL
figures, by 2030, one in five persons in the US will be aged 65
or over, and 90 per cent of that population will have chronic
conditions and there will be fewer than one geriatrician for
every 10,000 seniors and a severe lack of nurses.
Interestingly, one of the biggest challenges for retirement
planning is having the kind of investments that actually benefit
from the phenomenon of rising lifespan and some of the healthcare
issues that stem from that. The innovations in healthcare, driven
whether by political decisions or brute economics, are likely to
throw up new business models in the future that
retirement-focused investors will want to get closer to. And it
won’t just be family offices which will be putting their dollars
to work in some of these fields.