Lawmakers in two states are considering new limits on private-equity purchases of healthcare businesses, seeking to push back against a wave of investment that has reshaped the medical sector in the past decade. Massachusetts and California legislators are considering separate bills that, should either of them become law, would likely be the strongest curbs in the nation on private equity’s activities in healthcare, lawyers say. While differing in details, the two bills take a similar approach. Each would strengthen state regulators’ power to challenge healthcare acquisitions by corporations, while taking aim at the legal structures private-equity firms use to buy medical businesses.
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