Category: Healthcare Investment & Finance

The $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program is an unprecedented injection of capital averaging $200M per state annually through 2030. While legally earmarked for rural areas, smart state leaders know this isn’t just rural relief; it’s the launchpad for broader statewide primary care transformation. When you pair $1B per state in federal investment…

Written by a former healthcare investment banker, who raised over $2 billion for voluntary hospitals, HMOs and related organizations, and the author of Rethinking Primary Care Investment Strategy and Nine Key Levers: A Framework for Implementing States’ Primary Care Investment Strategies. Any state that wants to invest in primary care should consider establishing a Primary…

As a former healthcare investment banker, I observe what others have pointed out: that the U.S. will not fix its primary care crisis with higher annual expenditures alone. I argue for treating primary care as essential infrastructure by expanding the workforce through state-backed financing and loan relief, building modern information infrastructure with interoperable data platforms…