Becker's Healthcare March 20, 2023
A Harvard Business Review analysis of 42 hospital-leveraged buyouts from 2003 to 2017 urged policy discussions on private equity in healthcare to move beyond a “good” or “bad” framing.
Compared with hospitals in a similar region, hospitals acquired by private equity firms saw their operating margins increase by nearly 2 percentage points.
However, private equity-acquired hospitals also were more likely to decrease staffing and shift focus from outpatient care, according to the March...