Title: Healthcare Financing in India
1Healthcare Financing in India
- 7th Global Knowledge Millennium 2009
New Delhi
Abhishek Bhagat Head Lifesciences Technology
26th November 2009
2Financial Resources in the Healthcare Industry
- The Government contributes 20 to the total
healthcare expenditure in India, the remaining
80 comes from the private sector - India has one of the highest private
- spending in healthcare as compared
- to other countries (Fig. 1)
- The Healthcare industry is India is estimated to
achieve a market size of 77 billion by 2012
(YBL Research), this translates into an
investment opportunity of over 30 billion by
2012.
Figure 1 Healthcare spending as part of
GDP (Source The Economist)
3Trends in PE Investments in Healthcare
- Investment in Established entities
- PE players have traditionally invested in private
healthcare providers, usually hospitals with
either of the below - Established presence in India
- Good gross margins
- Reliable promoters with successful ventures
- Investment in Emerging models
- With private healthcare becoming more active in
India and growth in the healthcare sector due to
increased consumer awareness, investments have
also moved towards new models - Medicities
- Medical Diagnostics
- Pathology and Diagnostic labs
- Retail Pharmacy
4Trends in PE Investments in Healthcare -
Investment in Emerging Models
- There is an emerging focus on Unique Business
Models in healthcare by funds - Healthcare services reaching out to Tier II and
Tier III cities - Tier I cities 80 healthcare providers in India
are located in Tier I cities - Resulting in
- Competition for patient population
- Cost competitiveness
- Tier II and III Cities Demand for high quality
and specialty healthcare services - Advantage
- Low cost model (relative)
- High patient turnover
- Hospitals catering to specific services
- Geriatric care
- Care for lifestyle diseases like cardiology,
diabetes etc - Medi-city models
- Pathlabs and Diagnostic Services
5Healthcare Funds in India
Other multi sector funds in India Apax Partners,
Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts,
Blackstone Group, and Barings Private Equity
Partners India
6Synergies with Real Estate Infrastructure
Increasing participation of Real Estate and
Infrastructure sectors in the Healthcare Industry.
- Investments into Greenfield medical development
projects - Punj Lloyd limited has invested in Global Health
Limited for setting up the Medanta - MediCity - Fortis Healthcare entered in to a JV with DLF and
tie-up with Ansal Properties of Rs 6,200 crore to
set up a chain of 200-450 bed hospitals in 31
cities in India within three to five years - Apollo Group plans to set up a wellness centre
for the elderly in a tie-up with Lavasa Lake City
for Rs 200 crore - Hinduja Group has a tie-up with Dubai
Government-owned Limitless LLC for around 1
billion to start a chain of hospitals - Proposed Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Corporate, tax- advantaged entities similar in
structure, operation and regulation to Mutual
Funds - Invest directly in land and building
- Rent facilities to third-party healthcare
providers - Can directly reduce the burden of initial high
capital expenditure - Ex. Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (NYSEOHI)
is a Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT")
providing financing and capital to the long-term
healthcare industry with a focus on skilled
healthcare facilities located in the United
States.
7Multilateral Agencies
Multilateral agencies are investing in
commercially viable projects that contribute to
sustainable development.
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Supports the growth of sectors in developing
countries - Primarily focused on the Health Education
sectors - Worlds largest investor in the private health
sector in emerging markets - Invests in commercially viable companies and
projects that create an important public good in
an economically, environmentally, and socially
sustainable way. - Global experience in the health care sector with
financial, technical and strategic value add. - Long Term Investor 8 to 15 years
- Wide range of innovative products services
including Loans, Syndicated Loans, Equity,
Credit guarantees, Risk sharing facilities - Committed 200 million to Indias Healthcare
sector - Investments
- - Apollo Reach (Senior Loan- 35 mn, Convertible
Loan- 15 mn, - - Apollo Hospitals (Equity Investment of 20 mn)
- - Max (Phase III Equity Investment of 30mn,
Phase II Equity Quasi-Equity Investment of
66.7 mn, Phase I Local Currency A Loan of 18
mn) - Rockland Hospitals (Equity and Quasi-equity
Investment of 22 million) - Duncan Gleneagles Hospital ( Loan of 7 mn,
Equity of 1 mn)
8Multilateral Agencies
- OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
- Provides financial assistance to developing
countries stimulate economic and social progress - Methods of concessional funding include public
sector loans, trade financing, support to private
enterprises and contributions to other local
development organisations for on lending - Committed 25 million in public sector loans to
Indias Healthcare sector - Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Provides tailored financial products to its
member countries - Financial support is provided both at country and
regional levels for health sector related
interventions - A recent example is ADB's approval of 50 million
loan to the Philippines to improve health care in
the Philippines through innovative financing
mechanisms, better economic governance and public
expenditure management, and partnerships among
institutions.
9Socially Responsible Organisations
- Venture Funds
- Aavishkaar is a microfinance venture fund that
invests in commercially viable enterprises that
have a social impact - Provides risk capital and support to early stage
ventures across a number of sectors including
healthcare - Works closely with investee companies to ensure
that commercial returns and social goals are
being achieved - Investees include Swas Healthcare, Vaatsalya
- Not-for-profit Organisations
- Charitable foundations
- Religious trusts
- NGOs
- Operate through grants and donations
10Public Private Partnership
Collaborative model between Private Players and
State Governments
- Allocation of Land and Building by the State
- Operation and infrastructure management
undertaken by the private player - Profits are shared in an equitable ratio
- Free of cost services to patients below the
poverty line - Efficient solution to the lack of quality care in
Government hospitals - Resolution of financial hurdles faced by private
players - Elucidation of long term funding problem
- Increased ability to raise capital from
developmental organisations - Successful Example Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty
Hospital - Partnership between the Government of Karnataka
and Apollo Hospitals Group - Financial support from the OPEC Fund for
International Development - Provides low cost specialty care to families
below the poverty line - Land and Building provided by the State, 30 of
profits retained by Apollo
11Other Funding Alternatives
- Project Finance from Commercial Banks
- Infrastructure status, facilitating easier
credit appraisal - Specific structured debt tailored to meet
immediate and long term objectives - Ex. Medanta MediCity received a tremendous
response to its debt syndication of Rs. 500
crores from PSU banks - Venture Debt
- Usually part of a Series A or Series B investment
and will be 20 to 30 of the total. - Companies with strong financial backing, such as
from VCs / Nonfunded companies that have a
customer base. - Includes a warrant, which is a right to buy
company's shares at a fixed price. - Working Capital Loans
- Equipment and Expansion Financing
- Guarantees
- Lien on equipment
- Mortgages on non-operating real estate
- Build to suit
- Real estate owned by investor, with a subsequent
lease to the hospital operator - B2B arrangement, not a marketable investment
- Securitization of Receivables
12THANK YOU!