Private Equity Investment in Institutional Review Boards
This Briefing is brought to you by AHLA’s Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group.
- January 29, 2024
- Holley Thames Lutz , Dentons US LLP
Private equity (PE) investment in health care has its detractors, skeptics, believers, and proponents with strongly held beliefs as to why their positions are the “right” positions. The debate about PE’s role in health care has intensified over the past several years, particularly as PE investment in the global health care sector hit an all-time high in 2021 with a reported $200 billion in buyouts. Although this global figure includes investments in the health care sector broadly (e.g., biotech, pharma, health care information technology), the largest portion of that investment has been in health care services in the United States including hospitals, nursing homes, and increasingly, physician practices.
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