On May 16, 2025, AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds hosted a live webinar on what patients and clinicians should know about private equity in health care featuring Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a ...

Private equity and real estate investment trusts are main financing vehicles in long-term care, and their presence has hurt quality of care.

Investors who buy up and sell health companies are drawing scrutiny from critics worried about diminished care and higher costs for patients. Private equity firms, as these investment groups are ...

SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, D-West Sacramento, recently introduced a bill aimed at strengthening California’s existing ban on the corporate practice of medicine. Senate Bill 351 will ...

Economics correspondent Paul Solman is exploring the impact on communities in Massachusetts after a private equity firm bought struggling hospitals. In his second report, he looks at how private ...

Steward Health Care was once the largest private hospital system in the country. When the private equity-backed network filed for bankruptcy last year, it devastated providers and patients. In ...

Over the past two decades, private equity firms have aggressively acquired health systems, hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. This has reshaped the health ...

Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that would require additional transparency for private equity transactions in the health care industry. This expansion of an existing ...