Managed Healthcare Executive June 14, 2024
Harvard researcher Zirui Songsays research findings show that nospitals higher prices and lower quality.
Private equity firms have been buying spree in U.S. healthcare, acquiring hundreds of hospitals and physician practices, especially specialty practices whose clinicians perform highly compensated procedures.
The firms and their advocate say the bolus of capital into healthcare delivery can result in increased efficiency and improved patient care and for struggling hospitals, a lifeline and the difference between shutting down and continuing to serve patients.
But in a presentation Thursday at the AHIP annual meeting Las Vegas, Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of health care professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, shared an impressive collection of his and...
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