Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appears th...
Showing posts with label private equity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label private equity. Show all posts
The Door Revolves Again: the Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes to Private Equity Firm Looking for Investments Created by Health Reform
Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appears th...
Deadly Over-Doses and Private Equity - the Case of Bain Capital's Methadone Clinics
Some reporting by Bloomberg provides more evidence about what happens when direct care of the most vulnerable patients is commercialized. T...
BLOGSCAN - When Private Equity Owns Hospitals
On his Not Running a Hospital blog, Paul Levy discussed reasons for concern when private equity firms purchase and operate hospitals. He u...
Private Equity, Obfuscatory Advertising, and Making Health Care a Commodity: Lessons from Cerberus Capital Management
Private Equity vs Patient Care - a Bainful Example
A long investigative report in Salon summarized allegations about the quality of care in various treatment centers owned by Aspen Education...
How the Anechoic Effect Is Institutionalized - A Hospital Policy Against Unsupervised Discussion with the Media
In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...
"Barbarians at the Gate" - Making Private Equity Less Private, and Understanding Its Effects on Health Care
One good byproduct of the tumultuous everlasting 2012 campaign for the US presidency has been to shed light on a number of political and eco...
CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals
Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
The New Steward Health Care: Will Superbowl Ads and "Leakage Reduction" Keep the Ship Afloat, or Will a "Greater Fool" Be Left Trying to Bail it Out?
Some recent publications raise interesting questions about the leadership of a regional health care organization which now seems to have int...
