Opinion | Healthcare’s North Star Should Be Better Health
Parekh is an internal medicine physician and health policy advisor. Myriad challenges exist for today’s healthcare leaders: tight supply chains, high labor costs, payment reforms, growth in new technologies, artificial intelligence, disruptive competitors, and the prospect of a rising number of uninsured Americans. But there’s a greater challenge than all of these: America’s declining health. […]
Here’s Where Private Equity Is Most Involved in Medicine
When it comes to private equity investment in physician practices, variations exist across geographic regions and medical specialties, according to research announced by the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation this week. Of the six specialties reviewed, the proportion of physicians working in private equity-acquired practices was highest in dermatology (7.5%) and gastroenterology […]