Medical Economics December 3, 2025
A new study reveals private equity’s detrimental impact on healthcare, leading to staffing cuts, increased patient risks and calls for physician advocacy.
A newly published study in the Annals of Internal Medicine has added more fuel to the growing alarm over private equity’s expanding role in American health care. Researchers found that hospitals acquired by private equity (PE) companies experience a decrease in staffing and salaries, as well as an increase in emergency department patient deaths and patient transfers to other hospitals.
This isn’t the first time such concerns have surfaced. Previous studies went further, concluding that private equity ownership was consistently associated with increases in costs for patients and payers with mixed to harmful impacts on quality, noting an...
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