Episode
Health Care Acquisitions: What Happens to Patient Care Intensity?
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- A Health Podyssey
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- Aug 18, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1240
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Summary
Health Affairs Publishing’s Rob Lott speaks to Jiebing Wen of The University of Texas at Austin about her recent paper exploring how hospice acquisitions by investor-owned firms were associated with lower care staffing intensity and fewer patient visit minutes, especially in patients' final days. Order the August 2026 issue of Health Affairs . Sign up for our free Health Affairs newsletters to stay up to date on health policy news and analysis.