Private equity firms have been buying up hospitals around the country, and new research shows those changes may be affecting the kind of care patients get, especially those with heart failure. In hospitals taken over by private equity, doctors are seeing patients who are less sick on paper but are performing more procedures and moving some patients to other hospitals more often. In particular, the number of Black patients being transferred elsewhere after admission has gone up in these hospitals, raising flags about how decisions are being made and who is being treated where.
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