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How Private Equity is Raising Health Care Costs for Americans

October 12, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsequity, health care costs, health costs, healthcare costs, patient access, private equity, SDOH

Every American deserves high-quality, affordable health care, and yet health care is becoming unaffordable for far too many families. One driver behind the rising costs is the surge in physician practice acquisitions by private equity firms. The increased private equity purchases are driving up health care costs for Americans. By 2018 private equity represented 45% of all health care…

Five Important Health Care Trends That Consumers Should Track

July 29, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, consumers, cost transparency, coverage, health care trends, health costs, health inequities, health literacy, healthcare, healthcare costs, healthcare trends, Informed Patient, patient health data, SDOH, value-based care, vbc

In the world of health care, change is never-ending. Politics, government regulation, scientific advancement, technology, and the economics and financing of health care foster shifts to reshape how care is delivered and how much it costs. Many of these shifts are completely invisible to us as health care consumers. But they also drive what is…