Thursday, October 15, 2026
A Campaign for Accountability analysis comparing seventy-one private equity-owned hospitals with seventy-one closely matched peers found that PE-owned hospitals collected $669 more in operating profit per patient after acquisition. Their operating costs per patient showed no statistically significant change.
Every payer wants care delivered at home because it is cheaper. The workforce that would deliver it is the least stable in the industry, and the two facts have not yet been reconciled.
Transparency rules produced enormous files that consumers never opened. Employers and their advisers did, and the negotiating conversation has changed as a result.
Employers battered by health costs are reviving an old idea: putting the doctor inside the workplace, and the modern version is outperforming its ancestor.