Tom Nolan reviews this week's research Selling off NHS hospitals to private equity firms would seem an unlikely option for the new Labour government. But, as the government tries to fill the 22bn budget hole it
Steward, which was owned by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management until 2020, previously sold the land under its hospitals to a real estate company, saddling the company with over $6.6 billion in long-term rent obligations and leaving the company on shaky financial footing. ...
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Jindal and Katebi identified “dishonest” hospital billing practices, such as hospitals charging patients fees for outpatient services as they “buy up the practices of local physicians.” More than half of physicians worked for a hospital or practice owned by a hospital by 2020, they said...
employment with hospitals and health systems or corporate entities. The survey defines corporate entities as health insurers and private equity firms. Hospitals and corporate entities acquired 20,900 physician practices during the 2 years studied; the result is a 25% increase in corporation-owned ...
Some of these management groups areowned by private equity firms. The private equity health care model is to purchase private medical practices and consolidate them into a bigger firm that provides outsourced services, quickly increase the firm's value, and then sell the firm for a handsome profi...
A mother's death at a Boston hospital shortly after giving birth has sparked a state investigation into the hospital's owner, Steward Health Care. Last year, a CBS News investigation found a trail of unpaid bills at Steward hospitals around the
Tom Nolan reviews this week's research Selling off NHS hospitals to private equity firms would seem an unlikely option for the new Labour government. But, as the government tries to fill the 22bn budget hole it accuses the previous government of leaving behind and billions more are needed to...
Triad will sell hospitals to private-equity firms
financial equityThis cross-sectional study examines whether private equity targets financially or clinically more distressed or successful hospitals for acquisition.doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3319Sneha Kannan, MD, MSZirui Song, MD, PhDJAMA internal medicine...