Healthcare DIVE December 2, 2024
The JAMA study comes as federal regulators scrutinize private equity’s role in healthcare.
Dive Brief:
- Caregivers of hospice patients reported more negative experiences at facilities owned by private equity firms and publicly traded companies than at nonprofit hospice facilities, according to a study published last month in JAMA Network Open.
- Survey respondents ranked hospices owned by private equity firms or publicly traded companies lower on all metrics — including communication, timely care, respect for hospice patients, help with symptoms and hospice care training.
- The study comes as private equity firms have been increasingly buying up hospice facilities, with limited oversight from regulators. Researchers said the discrepancies in care quality between nonprofit and certain for-profits “suggest the need for...
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