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Years of dealmaking has led to sprawling hospital systems, vertically integrated health insurance companies, and highly concentrated private equity-owned practices resulting in diminished competition and even the closure of vital health facilities. As this three-part Heard on the Street series will show, the rich rewards and lax oversight ultimately create pain for both patients and the doctors who treat them. Belatedly, state and federal regulators and lawmakers are zeroing in on consolidation, creating uncertainty for the investors who have long profited from the healthcare merger boom.Over the past decade, private equity has spent hundreds of billions of dollars acquiring healthcare businesses from emergency care to anesthesiology to nursing homes. Where private equity has gone, studies show, prices have tended to increase.Consider the impact of massive private-equity investment in medical practices. When a patient with employer-based insurance goes under for surgery, the anesthesiologist’s fee is supposed to be determined by market forces. But what happens if one firm quietly buys out several anesthesiologists in the same city and then hikes the price of the procedure? Such a scheme was allegedly implemented by the private-equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and the company it created in 2012, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, according to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed last year. It started by buying the largest practice in Houston and then making three further acquisitions, eventually expanding into other cities throughout the state of Texas. In each location, the lawsuit alleges, USAP pursued an aggressive strategy of eliminating competitors by either acquiring them or conspiring with them to weaken competition.
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Do not blame the physicians for this mess. They sell their practices to larger entities because a small group or indivi…
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A Russian court has extended the pretrial detention of U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until August 5, sparking international concern over press freedom and human rights. Kurmasheva, who faces charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, has reported health problems and has been unable to speak…
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President Joe Biden has publicly declared the guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump in New York as a significant victory for the rule of law, emphasizing the importance of respecting the jury's decision. This stance comes amidst a backdrop of intense political division, with Biden criticizing…
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