Search results for "Hospital Ownership"
Hospitals acquired by private equity have less debt beforehand, decreased assets afterward
Private equity (PE) firms acquired hospitals that owned more of their inherent value and were less in debt, according to one study, while a second study found that assets of PE-acquired hospitals decreased 24% in the two years after acquisition versus controls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/08/07/hospitals-acquired-by-private-equity-have-less-debt-beforehand-decreased-assets-afterward.htm
7 Aug 2024
Nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care than for-profit and government hospitals
For every $100 of expense incurred in 2018, nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care ($2.30) than for-profit hospitals ($3.80) and government hospitals ($4.10), according to an analysis of 4,666 Medicare-certified general acute care hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/14/2.htm
14 Apr 2021
January 3, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/
August 7, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/08/07/
Inpatient care experience improved in many areas, survey finds
Inpatient care experience improved in many areas, survey findsExpert consensus says PPIs, antiplatelets can be used together
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/11/10/1.htm
10 Nov 2010
Private equity takeovers linked with more in-hospital adverse events in Medicare patients
Rates of falls and central-line bloodstream infections increased in hospitals after they were acquired by private equity firms, despite these hospitals having a younger, higher-income patient cohort.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/private-equity-takeovers-linked-with-more-in-hospital-adverse-events-in-medicare-patients.htm
3 Jan 2024
Study finds low adherence to price transparency mandate across U.S. hospitals
As of Jan. 1, 2021, a federal rule requires hospitals to disclose five types of standard charges for all services and to provide a consumer-friendly display for at least 300 services. Six to nine months after it went into effect, more than half of hospitals had met neither requirement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/study-finds-low-adherence-to-price-transparency-mandate-across-us-hospitals.htm
15 Jun 2022
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020