Antitrust Enforcers Reaffirm Focus on Private Equity in Healthcare at Public Workshop

Antitrust attorneys David Kully, Kenneth Racowski, Bill Katz and Anna Hayes recently contributed to a Dallas Business Journal article about the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) public workshop examining the role of private equity investment in the healthcare industry. The workshop focused on concerns that private equity ownership can reduce quality of care, create misaligned financial incentives impacting patient outcomes and allow complex corporate structures to obscure accountability. Regulators also scrutinized private equity's strategies like roll-up acquisitions and the potential competitive impacts of consolidation. The attorneys note this reaffirms antitrust enforcers' continued close watch over private equity in healthcare amid worries about market concentration, profit motivations overshadowing care incentives and short-term investment horizons.

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