Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity ’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties Private equity firms have shelled out almost $1 trillion to acquire nearly 8,000 health care businesses, in deals almost always hidden from federal regulators. The result: higher prices, lawsuits, … www.google.com 2 year old needed 6 root canals and crowns. Medicaid. No imaging ordered to show need for this procedure. Hypoxemia and brain death. The public is waking up to the issues with private equity in medical care. I mean really how much of this is medically necessary? I had rotated at a pediatric children's hospital at a major metropolitan that was bought out by PE and it went... Read more
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