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Health Care Acquisitions: What Happens to Patient Care Intensity?

Episode 273 Published 2 weeks ago
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Health Affairs Publishing’s Rob Lott speaks to Jiebing Wen of The University of Texas at Austin about her recent paper exploring how hospice acquisitions by investor-owned firms were associated with lower care staffing intensity and fewer patient visit minutes, especially in patients' final days.

 
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