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

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. One doctor admitted prescribing the creams to scores of patients he had never seen, examined, or even spoken to, according to the suit. Five years later, a U.S.

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

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. One doctor admitted prescribing the creams to scores of patients he had never seen, examined, or even spoken to, according to the suit. Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors 52