David W. Johnson

Dave powers 4sight Health with an unflinching determination to create status-quo busting dialogue and action in healthcare reform. His innate desire to bring about change, coupled with his tremendous proficiency across health policy, academic medicine, economics, statistics, behavioral finance, disruptive innovation, organizational change and complexity theory, has led to his recognition as an insightful, incisive globally acknowledged authority on market-driven reform.

Dave is a prolific writer on healthcare’s pro-market transformation. He is the author-in-residence at MATTER, the Chicago-based healthcare incubator, and published the critically acclaimed book Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare in 2016. McGraw-Hill published Dave’s book The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Smarter, Kinder, Affordable Care for All in September 2019. As a speaker, Dave plays the role of rebel, challenger, industry historian, investor and company evaluator to push audiences forward. Watch his bio video.

Dave left a 28-year career in investment banking to create 4sight Health. As an investment banker, he managed over $30 billion in healthcare revenue bonds, led significant strategic advisory engagements for health systems. He specialized in capital formation, asset-liability management, enterprise risk analytics and new business-model development. Dave is also currently an investor and/or advisor for several early- or mid-stage healthcare companies including Curate Health, GaussSoft, HealthiPass, Link Capital, Medspeed and MultiScale Health Networks.

Dave holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. Dave was drawn to service at a young age as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa and a United States Presidential Management Intern.

His civic and professional affiliations have included Harvard Medical School (Visiting Committee); the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Board, Executive and Finance Committees); the University of Chicago (Harris School of Public Policy’s Visiting Committee, Student Engagement Sub-Committee Chair and the Urban Health Lab); the Health Management Academy; Harvard School of Public Health; CHRISTUS Health (Audit Committee); the British-American Project (U.S. Chair); and Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Center (Finance Committee Chair).

Dave is a consummate thought leader who enjoys reading and writing. He is no health slouch as a vegan who often bikes to meetings, who’s run ten marathons. He also loves traveling.

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System Dynamics
A Healthcare Revolution is at Our Doorstep
The U.S. healthcare system operates in much the same way it has for the past 100 years: always… Read More
By October 1, 2024
System Dynamics
Cain Brothers House Calls Podcast: Health Systems, Private Equity and the Government: It’s Complicated
Is PE the Problem or the Cure? Politicians, journalists, and academics are increasingly raising concerns about private equity’s… Read More
By September 10, 2024
Economics
Cain Brothers: Health Systems, Private Equity, and the Government: It’s Complicated
Sometimes a title says it all. The highly respected Kaiser Health News (KHN) launched an investigative series in… Read More
By and September 10, 2024
Outcomes
Healthcare on the Brink
“The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces That Will Cure America’s Health Crisis” will publish on November 13th. My… Read More
By August 20, 2024
Outcomes
The Primary Care Conundrum
Walmart’s announcement on April 30 that it was pulling the plug on Walmart Health stunned the healthcare ecosystem. [1] Few saw… Read More
By August 6, 2024
Outcomes
4sight Health: The Next 10 Years
4sight Health celebrated its tenth anniversary on June 27th. On that auspicious date in 2014, the IRS granted… Read More
By July 29, 2024
Innovation
Nobody Does It Better: Cain Brothers Nurtures Health Systems-PE Collaboration
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, Cain Brothers just hosted its second invite-only collaboration conference… Read More
By July 9, 2024
System Dynamics
Revolutionary Times
In two years, on July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its declaration… Read More
By July 2, 2024
Outcomes
Site-Neutral Payment and the Battle for Healthcare’s Soul
In a remarkable and surprising show of bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Lower Costs, More… Read More
By June 4, 2024
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