Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations

Robert Tyler Braun; David G Stevenson; Mark Aaron Unruh

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6262

Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations

JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Aug 1;181(8):1113-1114. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6262.

Authors

Robert Tyler Braun¹, David G Stevenson^{2

3}, Mark Aaron Unruh¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
² Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
³ The Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville.

Abstract

This case series examines the increase in acquisitions of hospice agencies by private equity firms and publicly traded corporations from 2011 to 2019.

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care / economics
Delivery of Health Care / methods
Efficiency, Organizational
Financial Management* / methods
Financial Management* / trends
Hospices* / economics
Hospices* / organization & administration
Hospitals, Proprietary
Humans
Medicare* / economics
Medicare* / statistics & numerical data
United States