Boost your returns and diversify your portfolio by investing in private markets. But does it live up to the hype? It can, if ...

Private equity hospital acquisitions in the US were associated with declines in patient care experience, particularly in ...

Growing shares of primary care physicians are affiliated with hospitals and private equity firms, which may be pushing up costs for primary care services, according to a new study.

If recent headlines are any indication, 2025 will be a pivotal year for setting the course of private equity investment in ...

Private equity acquisition of US hospitals was associated with a significant worsening of patient-reported care experiences.

A new study from Harvard Medical School is raising fresh concerns about hospitals controlled by private equity firms. Researchers found patient satisfaction dropped at hospitals that moved under ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places ...

Little evidence-based research has evaluated the impact of private equity acquisitions on the patient care experience, an important dimension of care quality. In a previous study, Wadhera ...

Deterring private equity would further push the former onto the menu of the latter. As economist Christopher M. Whaley and colleagues concluded in their study recently published in the Journal of ...

Prospect Medical Holdings' road to bankruptcy has eerie similarities to that of Steward Health, another multistate hospital chain formerly owned by private ... outlier or a case study in larger ...

Laura Kreutzer oversees a team of editors and reporters that cover private markets, particularly private equity, for WSJ Pro ... and bravely battling a case of late-onset imposter syndrome.