Healthcare DIVE May 5, 2021
Dive Brief:
- Private equity firms are more likely to acquire hospitals with larger operating margins, more beds and in urban areas, according to a new analysis of 15 years of deals.
- Researchers wanted to get a sense of the type of hospital deals private equity firms were interested in by comparing hospitals that were acquired with those that were not. The analysis centered on comparing certain hospital characteristics, including financial and operational performance and local market data.
- Of the 42 private equity deals that included 282 hospitals in 36 states, most occurred in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, according to the report published in the latest issue of Health Affairs.
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