Experts Warn of Looming Private Equity Interest in Cardiology Care
Seeking profits, private equity firms are circling medical practices, particularly as procedures like PCI shift to outpatient clinics.
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Seeking profits, private equity firms are circling medical practices, particularly as procedures like PCI shift to outpatient clinics.
Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other harms in a hospital after it is acquired by private equity.
Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other forms of harm during their stay in a hospital after it is acquired by a private equity firm, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
This Viewpoint details how and why improved oversight of private equity acquisition of physician practices and hospitals is needed to mitigate the effects on he