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2024 Health Policy Conference

Talking Points

Summary

Presented here are a selection of tables and charts from our Health Policy Conference speakers' research  for discussion and to provide some additional context to some of the day's featured talks. Below that are additional contextually relevant articles. Please refer back to this information as you attend sessions with their respective speakers.

Presentation Slides

The following are the slide decks from the conference presentations.

PRIVATE EQUITY IN HEALTHCARE: TRENDS AND IMPACTS ON COSTS, QUALITY, AND OWNERSHIP

Borsa, A., Bejarano, G., Ellen, M., & Bruch, J. D. (2023). Evaluating trends in private equity ownership and impacts on health outcomes, costs, and quality: systematic review. BMJ, 382, e075244. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-075244

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During the expansion of private equity investment in healthcare a systematic review covering the last 23 years yielded 55 studies in a wide range of settings.

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THE INFLUENCE OF PRIVATE EQUITY ON ANESTHESIA COSTS

La Forgia, A., Bond, A. M., Braun, R. T., Yao, L. Z., Kjaer, K., Zhang, M., & Casalino, L. P. (2022). Association of Physician Management Companies and Private Equity Investment With Commercial Health Care Prices Paid to Anesthesia Practitioners. JAMA Internal Medicine, 182(4), 396-404. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0004

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UNVEILING PRIVATE EQUITY'S IMPACT ON US HEALTHCARE: INSIGHTS FROM HOSPITAL ACQUISITIONS, 2003–17

Offodile II, A. C., Cerullo, M., Bindal, M., Rauh-Hain, J. A., & Ho, V. (2021). Private Equity Investments in Health Care: An Overview of Hospital and Health System Leveraged Buyouts, 2003–17. Health Affairs, XX(X), XXX-XXX. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01535

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Additional Articles

  1. Borsa, A., Bejarano, G., Ellen, M., & Bruch, J. D. (Year). Evaluating trends in private equity ownership and impacts on health outcomes, costs, and quality: systematic review. BMJ, 382, e075244. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/382/bmj-2023-075244.full.pdf

  2. Khullar, D., Casalino, L. P., & Bond, A. M. (2024). Vertical integration and the transformation of American medicine. New England Journal of Medicine, 390(11), 965-967. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2313406

  3. Newitt, P. (2024, May). Private practice physicians remain 'dinosaurs on the road toward extinction'. Becker's Physician Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.beckersphysicianleadership.com/independent-practice/private-practice-physicians-remain-dinosaurs-on-the-road-toward-extinction.html

  4. Gliadkovskaya, A. (2023, October 26). New multispecialty advocacy group wants to protect independent practices from hospitals' buyouts. FierceHealthcare. Retrieved from https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/new-multi-specialty-advocacy-org-launches-support-independent-practices

  5. Scheffler, R. M., Alexander, L., Fulton, B. D., Arnold, D. R., & Abdelhadi, O. A. (Year). Monetizing Medicine: Private Equity and Competition in Physician Practice Markets. [Report]. American Antitrust Institute. Retrieved from https://www.antitrustinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AAI-UCB-EG_Private-Equity-I-Physician-Practice-Report_FINAL.pdf

  6. American College of Emergency Physicians. (2022, February 10). The flip side of the coin: A look at the increase in health insurer consolidation. Retrieved from https://www.acep.org/federal-advocacy/federal-advocacy-overview/regs--eggs/regs--eggs-articles/regs--eggs---february-10-2022

  7. Center for American Progress. (2018, December 5). Provider consolidation drives up health care costs: Policy recommendations to curb abuses of market power and protect patients. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/article/provider-consolidation-drives-health-care-costs/