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Join Health Affairs on May 13 for another live taping of A Health Podyssey.

A Health Podyssey's Rob Lott will chat with Andrew Ryan about his paper in the May 2025 edition of Health Affairs and takes questions from a live audience.

Private equity firms have increased their ownership stake across health care sectors in the US.

Their focus on short-term profitability may decrease the provision of unprofitable services, reducing access for patients in vulnerable populations.

In an ahead-of-print article published this week, Yashaswini Singh and coauthors explore how the expansion of private equity-owned physician practices has led to a decrease in access for certain eye conditions such as retinal detachment.

For more on this topic, check out a recent episode of A Health Podyssey where Singh explores private equity's effect on health care staff turnover.

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FDA’s First 100 Days Under the Second Trump Administration

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