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Exploring What An Amedisys Divestment Strategy Could Look Like

Home Health Care

“Optum, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, is already the largest employer of physicians in the country – controlling over 10% of American doctors – which means this deal raises significant antitrust concerns in Massachusetts and nationally,” the senator said. Medicare revenue on the year came in at $874.2

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. “Private equity exercises immense control over the operations of health care companies it buys an interest in,” said Jeanne Markey, a Philadelphia whistleblower attorney.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. “Private equity exercises immense control over the operations of health care companies it buys an interest in,” said Jeanne Markey, a Philadelphia whistleblower attorney.

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