Stock art from Shutterstock.com A recent House subcommittee hearing centered on concerns that private equity's investment model purportedly focuses on maximizing profit to the detriment of patient welfare. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)

Private equity investment in health care companies has garnered increasingly critical attention from the federal government, including recent scrutiny by Congress: In March 2021, the Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on "Examining Private Equity's Expanded Role in the U.S. Health Care System."

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