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Private Equity Health Care Acquisitions – January 2025

In light of continued investor interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity…

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Private equity in key healthcare sectors

PESP has studied the impacts of private equity investment in key healthcare sectors, including: Hospitals See our 2021 and 2024 reports on Apollo Global Management’s hospital systems, Lifepoint Health and ScionHealth. See our reports on private equity-owned…

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Important private equity research in healthcare

PESP has written about the practice of taking debt-funded dividends from healthcare companies; private equity’s role in medical debt creation & collection; and the relationship of private equity ownership to Medicare & Medicaid fraud. PESP also tracks…

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Private Equity Healthcare Deals: 2024 in Review

Overview In light of private equity’s continued interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) tracks private equity-backed healthcare deals each month and produces an annual report exploring…

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Private Equity, Public Damage

How ‘Vulture Investors’ Get Rich Wrecking Companies, Killing Jobs, Endangering the Vulnerable & Spoiling the Environment–And Our Tax Code Helps Them Do It Private equity (PE) firms use money raised from wealthy individuals and institutional investors…

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