Health Care Acquisitions: What Happens to Patient Care Intensity?

A Health Podyssey by Health Affairs

Aug 18, 202620:40Science & Medicine

Health Affairs Publishing’s Rob Lott speaks to Jiebing Wen of The University of Texas at Austin about her recent paper exploring how hospice acquisitions by investor-owned firms were associated with lower care staffing i...

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