The year-long inquiry into hospitals managed by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners comes amid growing calls for increased oversight of private equity in healthcare.

In a paper published in JAMA, health policy experts at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) report that patient care experience worsened after private equity (PE) acquisition of US hospitals,

The Senate investigation of Apollo Global Management's purchase of Lifepoint Healthcare and Leonard Green & Partners' purchase of Prospect Medical Holdings reinforced the findings of past research.

Private equity investors in the health-care industry will face additional oversight in Massachusetts under a new law that Governor Maura Healey plans to sign on Wednesday.

A U.S. Senate committee accused private-equity healthcare investors of choosing profits over patient care, adding a prominent voice to those claiming Wall Street is putting the medical system at risk.

Private equity's medical adventure has taken another detour to the ER, with the Senate Budget Committee releasing a bipartisan report that slams the industry's stewardship of hospital chains. Why it matters: This caps off a year in which federal politicians zeroed in on private equity ownership of health-care providers,

Private equity investments in healthcare may harm patients, providers and hospitals, according to a new report released by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat who chaired the Senate Budget Committee in the 118th Congress,