HCA’s Profit Trail: Billing, Staffing And ER Care Changes
The New York Times: A Giant Hospital Chain Is Blazing A Profit Trail
HCA's robust profit growth has raised the value of the firms' holdings to nearly three and a half times their initial investment in the $33 billion deal. The financial performance has been so impressive that HCA has become a model for the industry. Its success inspired 35 buyouts of hospitals or chains of facilities in the last two and a half years by private equity firms eager to repeat that windfall (Creswell and Abelson, 8/14).