Private equity hospitals may be pushing for faster discharges or truncating the home-transition period in the name of efficiency, which can lead to readmissions. In the study of nearly 350,000 cases, ...

Private equity firms have acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. over the past decade, with nearly 80% of those acquisitions occurring over a four-year span, according to a new ...

After private-equity firms acquire hospitals, the facilities’ assets and resources diminish significantly, leaving the facilities less equipped to care for patients, according to a new study by ...

Brown University School of Public Health and Brookings Institution researchers have conducted a longitudinal and cross-sectional study investigating trends in hospital and private equity affiliation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. They found no evidence that private equity-acquired hospitals ...

New research, focused on 19 of the 25 largest U.S. private equity-leveraged buyout families, argues private equity is riskier than the publicly traded funds in which defined contribution plans ...

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals, according to research published this week in Annals ...

Research led by Dr. Zirui Song of Harvard Medical School published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, September 2025, has delivered one of the clearest warnings yet about the dangers of private ...

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are professors at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Schrier and Schwartz are medical residents at the ...

A new study has unveiled the latest consequence of private-equity ownership on a hospital — more patient deaths in the emergency room. The analysis, done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, ...

A new study from Harvard Medical School is raising fresh concerns about hospitals controlled by private equity firms. Researchers found patient satisfaction dropped at hospitals that moved under ...