What We're Reading

Health Policy Journal Club, September 2024

The health policy journal club is an interdisciplinary, inter-professional group convened monthly by the Farley Health Policy Center to discuss timely topics in health policy. A curated selection of high-yield articles provides the basis for discussion. Past topics have included income inequality and health, professionalism in medicine, patients as consumers, and adjusting payment for measures of social risk. This page presents the reading list from the most recent journal club.

Readings

Private equity in healthcare 

1. Private Equity's Role in Health Care. November 17, 2023. Commonwealth Fund Explainer.
2. Webster JR. Private equity and the ravaging of U.S. health care. The Pharos. Summer 2024.
3. Scheffler RM, Blumenthal D. Private equity impacts on health care: federal and state legislative and regulatory actions, will it matter? Milbank Quarterly Opinion. April 29, 2024.
   

Profits and primary care

1. Grumbach K, Cohen DJ, Jabbarpour Y. The failing experiment of primary care as a for-profit enterprise. Health Affairs Forefront. September 5, 2024. 
   

Profits in nonprofit hospitals

1. Rosenthal E. Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money. KFF Health News. July 29, 2024.
2. Levinson Z. Kaiser Family Foundation. Oversight of nonprofit hospital tax-exempt status: background and key considerations. Testimony prepared for the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means. U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on Tax Exempt Hospitals and the Community Benefit Standard. April 26, 2023.
3. Testimony of the American Hospital Association for the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means. U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on Tax Exempt Hospitals and the Community Benefit Standard. April 26, 2023.