MedPage Today April 21, 2022
— Federal analysis raises concerns that the money may not be improving patient care
In a strong sign the Biden administration is serious about cracking down on poor quality and fraud, federal health officials Wednesday unveiled a pair of CMS data sets that named 3,236 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and 348 hospitals that were sold after Jan. 1, 2016, including the buyer and seller, and whether they were organizations or individuals.
The effort, which aimed to improve public knowledge about what types of companies and individuals have control over these facilities, is an attempt to better examine how private equity take-overs in healthcare — a rapidly expanding trend in recent years — may result in reduced spending on quality care...
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