Thousands of health care investors are gathering this week to decide where they’ll put their money in 2013. JP Morgan has invited about 300 companies to make their case at its Global Healthcare Conference. Fifteen of those are either headquartered in the Nashville area or have a presence here—and more yet from the region will be in the halls, appealing to investors one on one.
The conference comes just two weeks after Modern Healthcare’s ranking of the nation’s top-performing for-profit hospital chains. Six of the top ten were Midstate companies, with HCA and Community Health Systems in first and second place, respectively.
HCA has about a billion dollars more stock on the market than it did at last year’s conference. The company is also currently under investigation for the way its Florida hospitals billed Medicare. As for Community Health, that company paid dividends in December for the first time since going public. The value of its stock rose dramatically over 2012, although it still hasn’t fully recovered from the hit after a failed attempt to buy rival company Tenet Healthcare.
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