The closures of Crozer Keystone Health System and Hahnemann University Hospital have become case studies in a report on what ...

Private equity (PE) ownership is linked to 11% higher mortality rates in nursing homes, as well as 4.4% fewer nurses, 25% ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent nationwide study has uncovered troubling trends in patient mortality rates within U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms. Conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the ...

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 ...

Private equity firms appeared to target already successful hospitals, and after acquisition, reduce hospital assets for investor profit, according to two research letters. "That means that in 2 years ...

Compared to their peers, hospitals acquired by private equity reduced salary spending, cut staffing levels and experienced higher mortality rates within their emergency departments, according to a ...

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 ...

When private equity firms present their track records to investors, the charts often look too good to be true—higher returns with lower volatility than public markets. As it turns out, they often are ...