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More on why Medicare Advantage is a criminogenic environment. And private equity has gotten in on the action.

Healthcare

Many private equity firms have turned their sights on the lucrative — and often lightly regulated — home care industry, which provides care for the elderly and people with disabilities.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Help at Home employed nearly 800 caregivers scattered across every county in Alabama, helping 1,100 older and disabled clients with activities such as bathing, housework and meal

The home health-care industry is lucrative — but lightly regulated.

In the past couple of years, private equity’s foray into hospital ownership has drawn public outrage and, increasingly, legislative scrutiny.

PESP report, “How private equity raided safety net hospitals: Volume 2, highlights the pitfalls of private equity ownership of hospitals,

A new report released by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project provides an analysis of private equity (PE) deal activity in the U.S. healthcare sector during 2022.

A new report by the PESP provides an unprecedented look at the private equity industry’s incursion into rural healthcare.

Public officials and consumer groups have alleged negative effects of private equity’s ownership of nursing homes. But those investors also are squeezing providers through a critical mechanism: pursuing opportunistic ownership stakes in staffing agencies.