While some aging services providers last week warned that more scrutiny of healthcare consolidation and rules that seek to limit it further could create “unintended consequences,” others encouraged...
Even as prevalence shrinks, PE chaos tarnishes nursing home sector
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2023
The plight of a private-equity backed, multi-state nursing home chain demonstrates the ugly challenges operators could face as officials ratchet up regulatory and transparency pressures and large-scale...
BREAKING: Congressional study eviscerates for-profit nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 21, 2022
Dire conditions inside for‑profit nursing home chains contributed to deadly, early-pandemic conditions inside facilities, while “convoluted corporate structures” may have helped companies “obscure...
Feds formally investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 14, 2022
The federal government’s focus on private equity ownership in nursing homes is just a “red herring” for lawmakers, one leader said after the launch of a new probe into the matter.
Private equity in the crosshairs
By
Jonathan H. Ferry
Aug 20, 2021
Private equity investors in nursing homes should brace and prepare for an active near-term enforcement environment. Congressional skepticism of private equity involvement in healthcare, developments in...
Lawmaker urges GAO to investigate private equity ownership of nursing homes, others
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 08, 2021
The private-equity landscape within long-term care could face additional scrutiny following the latest request from a federal lawmaker.