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Brent Fulton

Brent D. Fulton, Ph.D., MBA, is Associate Research Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Associate Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. Fulton’s research examines how markets and regulation can improve the delivery of healthcare, including its cost, quality, and access. He teaches health economics in Berkeley’s Online MPH program and to undergraduates. His doctorate is in public policy analysis from Pardee RAND Graduate School and his MBA is from University of California, Los Angeles.
Antitrust and Competition

Does Private Equity Harm Competition in the Hospital Industry?

Brent Fulton
Brent Fulton discusses private equity’s investments in hospitals and assesses the risks it presents to key stakeholders: private equity investors, debt investors, patients, and the government. He argues financial transparency regulation is needed so fraudulent transfer and bankruptcy laws can be enforced to reduce uncompensated risk being borne by patients and the government (ultimately taxpayers).

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