Health Affairs February 25, 2025
Health Affairs’ Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Zirui Song of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital on his recent paper that explores how private equity acquisition impacts hospital costs and utilization and what variations were seen throughout 2005–19.
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Rob Lott:
Hello, and welcome to A Health Odyssey. I’m your host, Rob Lott. In recent years, healthcare has found a new villain of sorts in the form of private equity. That’s the term for a particular kind of for profit ownership structure, where private firms raise money from investors to buy or take control of a company. The goal, typically, is...
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