Saturday, January 25, 2025

Hospital, Private Equity Affiliations Inflating Primary Care Costs: Study

Brown University School of Public Health and Brookings Institution researchers have conducted a longitudinal and cross-sectional study investigating trends in hospital and private equity affiliation among primary care physicians and the associated impact on negotiated service prices. The study revealed that, compared to independent primary care physicians, both hospital and private equity-affiliated physicians commanded higher negotiated prices for equivalent services.

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NEW: Doctors affiliated with private equity are overcharging patients BILLIONS compared to ones who practice independently. Nearly 4 in 5 doctors in America are employees of a hospital system, PE firm, insurance giant, or other corporation www.levernews.com/wall-street- ...

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-- The Lever (@levernews.com) January 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM

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... The consolidation of medical care has been accelerating, driven by hospitals and private equity firms seeking to optimize market power and payment rates. Primary care has experienced significant corporate interest due to its fragmented structure, demands for coordinated care, and a perceived opportunity for unrealized gains.

Prior studies have documented higher prices linked to hospital acquisitions of physician practices and increasing private equity activity in specialties such as dermatology and gastroenterology.

Data on the impact of private equity on primary care have been limited due to transparency issues. The introduction of Transparency in Coverage (TiC) rules requiring insurers to disclose in-network negotiated rates provided researchers with a window into the practice.

In the study, "Growth of Private Equity and Hospital Consolidation in Primary Care and Price Implications," published in JAMA Health Forum, researchers analyzed ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 07:47 PM

We need Universal Healthcare Single Payer. Post haste.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-23 09:35 PM

It looks like the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, at least, trying to start the address of the problem with private equity sucking the life out of our healthcare system ...

Massachusetts Expands Oversight of Private Equity Investment in Healthcare: Key Takeaways from House Bill 5159 Signed into Law by Governor Healey
www.sheppardhealthlaw.com

... On January 8, 2025, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed House Bill 5159 ("H.5159") into law, marking a notable expansion of the regulation of private equity investments within the Massachusetts healthcare sector.

The legislation, set to take effect on April 8, 2025, introduces new measures to enhance transparency and accountability in healthcare transactions, focusing specifically on private equity firms, real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), and management services organizations ("MSOs").

This development also reflects a broader trend across the nation of increasing scrutiny of healthcare transactions and investments by private equity firms and other investors, as highlighted in our previous blog series on California's Assembly Bill 3129.[i]

Key Provisions of H.5159 ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-25 06:39 PM

The consolidation of healthcare is horrible for Americans.

Price isn't the only issue. I have seen this time and again in my circle. You see one doctor in system for an issue, the notes get passed to every doctor in that system. So if you are trying to run down the issue you notice they are all going back to the original diagnosis and not exploring anything on their own. You step out of that health system for an opinion and they start over? All of a sudden things change. Personally, for anything significant I am now using the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus for a second opinion. They are a teaching school and not fixated on making money and in addition have in general more advanced services. I see local orthopedic surgeon surgery is the only option. I go to U of M? I hear things like: "I see no need for surgery at this time. We can do physical therapy for sure but let's start with a cortisone shot to help remove the inflammation."

#4 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-27 10:00 AM

Also, people using a for-profit healthcare system who have no insurance or money to pay for care with tends to make prices rise. Keep cheer-leading for the illegal immigrants Brandon allowed to flood in.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-27 11:42 AM

@#5 ... Also, people using a for-profit healthcare system who have no insurance or money to pay for care with tends to make prices rise. ...

Yup.

That was one of the main reasons why the GOP, back in the 90's wanted to enact the insurance mandate, because those who could afford to pay were tired of supporting the healthcare of those who could not afford to pay.

That mandate was finally passed under fmr Pres Obama, at which point the GOP was suddenly against it.

Go figure.


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 12:08 PM

That mandate was finally passed under fmr Pres Obama, at which point the GOP was suddenly against it.

Go figure.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 12:08 PM | Reply

Because they didn't want to give the first black president s big win that's why.

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 12:10 PM

For Lamplighter

youtube.com

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 12:14 PM

But Obama gave us nothing except big incentives to Wall St banksters who screwed most while closing done Occupy Wall St.

#9 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-27 08:40 PM

@#9 ... But Obama gave us nothing except big incentives to Wall St banksters who screwed most while closing done Occupy Wall St. ...

Can you explain further WTF you are talking about?

thx.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 08:47 PM

He only pasted half his ChatGPT answer.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-27 08:51 PM

- Wall St banksters

www.disruptionbanking.com

They support your Con Man in Chief.

You've been conned, cheated, lied to, sold shoddy goods, manipulated, fearmongered, and frightened into thinking something different.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-27 08:54 PM

Obama said in 2007 he would hold the Wall St bankers accountable and instead he rewarded them and shut down Occupy Wall St at Zucotti Park. Obama was a con and still is.....

#13 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-27 09:35 PM

@#13 ... Obama said in 2007 ...

Conservatives said in the 1990's ...

How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate (2013)
www.forbes.com

... This came up at Tuesday's Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate, where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tussled on the question:

ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.

GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.

ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.

GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.

ROMNEY: And you never supported them?

GINGRICH: I agree with them, but I'm just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasn't true.

(CROSSTALK)

ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?

GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.

ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?

ROMNEY: Oh, OK. That's what I'm saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.

GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.

ROMNEY: OK.


(Romney was prepared to go on, but Michele Bachmann, in her usual role as the person who makes the debates less useful, interjected and changed the subject. Here's a YouTube video of the entire debate. The Gingrich-Romney exchange begins at the 27:38 mark.) ...

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 09:51 PM

Robson has Obama more for Oligarch billionaires and Corporations than Trump.

This is apparently what horse pills will do for you.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-27 10:04 PM

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