Dr. Benjamin Lowentritt
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It was very much what was happening with hospital systems.
In Maryland, we're pretty much down to three or four dominant hospital systems that cover all of the community of Maryland.
ironically, three of which really are the academic centers in the state.
There's one dominant private insurer in the state of Maryland.
So I would say that the doctors came last in this, right, in many cases.
And so whether or not it is completely necessary, whether it's always necessary, I think that's always up to individual, you know, discussion.
But the trends were certainly there well before there was any discussion of private equity or other types of partnerships.
Right.
So I think there's a lot of the macro kind of discussion about, OK, what's good about this?
What's bad about this?
And some of the why is it happening?
But I think private equity is often painted with a singular brush when I think there are dozens of different stories that are happening.
Well, I think that you you know, I think that there is a lot of discussion over some examples that I would never support.
Like, I'm not here to speak in support of private equity, but the really bad stories of things that happened in a couple of hospital systems in particular.
And I think the entire
you know, investment thesis for a private equity company to invest in a hospital is completely different than what we talk about in private practice medicine or in physician practice management, where, you know, hospital management
oftentimes comes down to trying to establish efficiencies which unfortunately is like pure staffing models and often comes back is like cutting back and so you lead to these situations where you know there have been entire communities that have seen a hospital essentially fold because a a because no company could make them you know solvent basically right because it was unsafe
There were safety concerns.
And listen, there were specific decisions made by the private equity investors that were probably irresponsible in that kind of environment.
I'm not here to speak to that or to defend that certainly in any way.
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