For the vendors and firms owed money by a bankrupt company, the primary motivation to join an Unsecured Creditors’ Committee is often simple: maximize economic recoveries. But Doctor Dennis Deruelle had other priorities.
Listen as Dennis recounts the struggles faced by hospital staff and patients from his viewpoint as the Executive Medical Director for Hospital Medicine and Critical Care during the rapid shuttering of American Physician Partners.
In this interview with 9fin deputy distressed debt editor Rachel Butt, Dennis lays out the concerns he had during the process and why he joined the UCC as part of the company's bankruptcy proceedings. He shares what his experience was like as the only true clinician on the committee, and what he thinks healthcare vendors and the credit industry can learn from the APP process.
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