Patients receiving care at hospitals owned by private-equity firms experience more bloodstream and surgical site infections and they fall more often, a new study by academics at Harvard University and ...

For hospital patients, the privilege of privacy used to be reserved for those willing and able to pay hundreds of dollars a night for single rooms. That’s changing, as hospitals on Long Island convert ...

After private equity firms acquire hospitals, the patient care experience starts to suffer, according to US survey data. The proportions of patients who gave a hospital a top rating or said they would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People with private health insurance might pay higher prices for procedures or tests at a hospital. A report published Monday by ...

Private equity acquisitions of hospitals have raised concerns about their impact on patient care experience, with mixed evidence on quality and outcomes. The study analyzed 73 private equity-acquired ...

Patient care experiences worsened after private equity firms took over hospitals, according to a difference-in-differences analysis. From 2008 to 2019, the percentage of patients rating hospitals a 9 ...

People with private health insurance might pay higher prices for procedures or tests at a hospital. A report published Monday by the research group Rand Corp. found that in 2022, the prices hospitals ...