NOVEMBER 2022 | Volume 39, No. 11 Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care By FRED SCHULTE Two-year-old Zion Gastelum died four Medicaid. Zion died after being of other companies that render New research by the University...
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NOVEMBER 2022 | Volume 39, No. 11 Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care By FRED SCHULTE Two-year-old Zion Gastelum died four Medicaid. Zion died after being of other companies that render New research by the University of days after receiving baby root canals diagnosed with “brain damage caused medical care nearly from cradle to California-Berkeley has identified and crowns at Kool Smiles, a private by a lack of oxygen,” according to grave. Private equity-backed groups “hot spots” where private equity equity-affiliated dental clinic in Yuma, the lawsuit. have even set up special “obstetric firms have quietly moved from Arizona. In a lawsuit, which was set- Kool Smiles “overtreats, emergency departments” at some having a small foothold to controlling tled in 2021, his parents accused the underperforms and overbills,” the hospitals, which can charge expectant more than two-thirds of the market clinic and the investment firm of put- family alleged in
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