Tuesday, August 15, 2023

"Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients?...."

You get one guess.

From the University of Chicago, February 2021:

Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? 
Evidence from Nursing Homes
 
"....Our estimates show that PE ownership increases the short-term mortality of Medicare patients 
by 10%, implying 20,150 lives lost due to PE ownership over our twelve-year sample period....."

That's from the abstract. Here's the paper, (78 page PDF)