Robert Field

Robert I. Field is professor of law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and professor of health management and policy at the and Dornsife School of Public Health of Drexel University. He is also faculty director of the Law School’s Center for Law and Transformational Technology and an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books on the American health care system, Mother of Invention: How the Government Created “Free-Market” Health Care (Oxford 2014) and Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise (Oxford 2007).

Does Private Equity Harm the Welfare of Residents in Nursing Homes?

Robert I. Field argues that private equity’s impact on price competition among nursing homes is limited because prices are mostly determined by Medicaid. However, private equity does impact quality and labor outcomes, which deserve greater government scrutiny.

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