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Private Equity Acquisitions

Acquisition of ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) by private equity
firms is growing. In the September issue of Health Affairs, Joseph Bruch
and coauthors use data from 2009-2017 to examine changes in outcomes
associated with these acquisitions
.

The authors find no statistically significant differences in the
seven-day unplanned hospital visit rate, total costs of encounters, or
volume of patient encounters between ASCs that were and were not
acquired by private equity.

"A primary contribution to the literature from our findings is
directly assessing the effect of private equity acquisitions on the
quality of care. Overall, we found no signal of decreased quality of
care associated with private equity acquisition of ASCs," the authors
continue.

Bruch and coauthors do assert that tracking the financial performance of
ASCs will be valuable in understanding the impact that private equity
acquisitions have on overall US health care cost growth.

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Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette
argue that policy makers have more work to do to ensure greater
transparency

in the health care system.

Bobby Clark writes that Congress has the chance to enact a law that
affirms LGBTQ+ people on a national scale

and neutralizes the health and social threat created by Supreme Court
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Health Equity Fellowship Reading List

Andrew Anderson is a health services researcher and assistant professor
in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Tulane School
of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He is also a fellow with the
Health Equity For Trainees
.

To recognize the beginning of a new school year, Anderson provides a
reading list for those interested in health equity studies.

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Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist
Health Policy
by Rachel
Hardeman et al.

Effective health policy and health equity interventions depend on
consistent definitions and methods. Hardeman presents a careful and
critical analysis of ways to validly measure structural racism to
achieve health equity.
A Typology For Health Equity Measures
by
Michael Bailit et al.

I found this Forefront article to be a timely addition to the
conversation on health equity measurement. The article discusses the
types of data and metrics the health care system needs to monitor and
encourage behavior change to reduce health inequities.

Predicting Race And Ethnicity To Ensure Equitable Algorithms For Health
Care Decision Making
by Irineo
Cabreros et al.

Algorithms are now used for all kinds of health care decisions. But
there is concern that they may lead to discriminatory decisions.
Cabreros presents approaches to the imputation of race and ethnicity
that can help mitigate potential algorithmic biases.

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Daily Digest

Hospital And Insurer Price Transparency Rules Now In Effect But
Compliance Is Still Far Away

Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette

The Public Health Case For Marriage Equality

Bobby Clark

 

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