Private equity firms exacerbate health inequity by driving hospital closures in historically underserved communities. Now nonprofit health systems are also vulnerable.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(5):E354-360. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2025.354.
Dr Robert I. Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss whether and to what extent private equity firms’ increasing presence in health care deserves our scrutiny and what policy makers, clinicians, and patients should know about responding to private equity ownership stakes in the organizations where they work and where they go for health services.
Capital and staff shortages have forced many rural hospitals to close. Private equity investment in rural hospitals has been one solution to these problems.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(5):E369-375. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2025.369.