DAILY UPDATE: Flag Day, KKR, Wells Fargo and the S&P 500

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Wells Fargo found that some of its employees were pretending to work — and sent them packing. More than a dozen employees in the bank’s wealth and investment management divisions were discharged last month “after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work,” Bloomberg reported citing disclosures filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 index gained 12.71 points (0.2%) to 5,433.74; the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 65.11 points (0.2%) to 38,647.10; the NASDAQ Composite rose 59.12 points (0.3%) to 17,66756.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) fell about 5 basis points to 4.246%.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) declined 0.10 to 11.94.

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On Monday, private equity giant KKR jumped 12% after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the company would be joining the index yesterday, along with CrowdStrike and GoDaddy, which saw their stocks jump 9% and 2%, respectively. The additions will be incorporated June 24.

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DAILY UPDATE: Moody, CME Fedwatch and Ever Rising Stock Markets

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On Monday, private equity giant KKR jumped 12% after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the company would be joining the index on Friday, along with CrowdStrike and GoDaddy, which saw their stocks jump 9% and 2%, respectively. The additions will be incorporated June 24.

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Stat: 99.4%. That’s the likelihood that interest rates will stay the same after the Fed’s meeting, according to the CME Fedwatch Tool. So it looks to be more “hurry up and wait” for interest rates to start coming down. 🫤 (Business Insider)

Quote: “It’s hard to think of a time when the US economy has diverged so fundamentally from its peers.”—Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, on the strength of the US economy compared to the weakness of other major economies. The US economy is continuing to grow while economies like Germany, Japan, and Canada are falling into recession. (The Atlantic)

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 index rose 45.71 points (0.9%) to 5,421.03; the Dow Jones Industrial Average  lost 35.21 points (0.1%) to 38,712.21; the NASDAQ Composite gained 264.89 points (1.5%) to 17,608.44.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) fell more than 7 basis points to 4.326%.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) declined 0.81 to  12.04.

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ENVISION HEALTHCARE : KKR Backed and Bankrupt!

A”Surprise Billing” Maven

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Envision, a $10 billion physician and ambulatory surgery firm owned by private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 15th 2023.  It was the largest healthcare bankruptcy in US history. 

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Envision claimed to employ 25 thousand clinicians- emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, hospitalists, intensivists, and advanced practice nurses and contracted with 780 hospitals.  Envision’s ER physicians delivered 12 million visits in 2021, not quite 10% of the US total hospital ED visits.

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PODCAST: On the Corporate Practice of Medicine Laws

IS PRIVATE EQUITY BUYING DOCTORS ILLEGAL?

By Eric Bricker MD

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PODCAST: Corporate Practice of Medicine Laws

Dictate Doctors Cannot Work for Corporations?

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ERIC BRICKER MD

These Laws Were Put Into Place So Doctors Would Not Put Shareholders Before Patients and So Corporations Would Not Interfere with Doctor Judgement.

Corporate Practice of Medicine Laws are at the State-Level, NOT the Federal Level.

Each State Has Their Own Exceptions Such as 1) Doctors Can Work for Companies That Are Owned by Other Doctors and 2) Doctors Can Work for Hospitals.

However, Private Equity Firms Have Been on a Physician Practice Buying Binge.

Private Equity Firms Bought 355 Physician Practices from 2013 – 2016.

Two of the Largest Purchases Were KKR‘s Purchase of Envision’s 25,000 Doctors for Almost $10 Billion and Blackstone‘s Purchase of Team Health’s 20,000 Doctors for $6 Billion.

QUERY: If Corporate Practice of Medicine Laws Say that Doctors Cannot Work for a Corporation, How are Private Equity Purchases of Physician Practices Legal?

This Video by Colleague Eric Bricker MD Explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2epmk4_-kUI

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