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June 15, 2022
Authors
David W. Johnson Ricky Ng
Topics
Economics
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Cain Brothers House Calls Podcast: Fixing America’s Aching Backs, Bones and Joints: Orthopedic Care in the Digital Health Era

Oh, my aching back! Cain Brothers’ Director Ricky Ng joins 4sight Health’s David W. Johnson to discuss the new wave of digital companies working to meet U.S. healthcare’s enormous need for earlier, more effective musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Cain Brothers is a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts

Read the commentary Fixing America’s Aching Backs, Bones and Joints: Orthopedic Care in the Digital Health Era.

About the Authors

David W. Johnson

David Johnson is the CEO of 4sight Health, an advisory company working at the intersection of healthcare strategy, economics, innovation. Johnson is a healthcare thought leader, keynote speaker, and strategic advisor to organizations busting the status-quo to reform our healthcare system. He is the author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare, and his second book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (McGraw-Hill 2019). As a speaker, Dave plays the role of rebel, challenger, industry historian, investor and company evaluator to push audiences forward. (Watch bio video.) Johnson applies his 25+ years of investment banking in healthcare to identify ways the healthcare industry must change to deliver better care. He received a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, an English degree from Colgate University, and served in the African Peace Corp service. Join over 10k+ healthcare executives who read our weekly insights and commentary on www.4sighthealth.com.

Dave wakes up every morning trying to fix America’s broken healthcare system. Prior to founding 4sight Health in 2014, Dave had a long and successful career in healthcare investment banking. He is a graduate of Colgate University and earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Employing his knowledge and experience in health policy, economics, statistics, behavioral finance, disruptive innovation, organizational change and complexity theory, Dave writes and speaks on pro-market healthcare reform. His first book Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare, and his second book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (McGraw-Hill 2019), are available for purchase on www.4sighthealth.com. Get his new book with Paul Kusserow, The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces that Will Cure America’s Healthcare Crisis now.

Ricky Ng

Ricky Ng is a Cain Brothers Director focused on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising for healthcare services clients. Ricky joined Cain Brothers in 2019 and has over 10 years of experience advising healthcare companies in a variety of M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory transactions. Ricky’s notable transactions include the sale of National Medical Billing Services to Aquiline Capital Partners, the recapitalization of AbsoluteCare by Kinderhook Industries, California Cryobank’s sale to GI Partners and its simultaneous merger with Cord Blood Registry and the sale of Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders to Monte Nido.

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