MedPage Today October 14, 2021
— Firms’ investments in healthcare continue to expand, at what cost?
This story is part of a series examining how trends in healthcare ownership are impacting physician practice. Click here for the main story on employment trends, and here for a sidebar on how physicians are finding ways to maintain autonomy in an increasingly corporate environment.
About 4 months after emergency medicine physician Jessica (a pseudonym used out of fear of retaliation from her employer) joined a Michigan hospital in 2014, the department’s staffing group was bought out by TeamHealth, a staffing firm backed by the private-equity behemoth Blackstone.
Ever since Emergency Medicine Specialists (EMS) — which touts itself as one of the oldest emergency physician groups in Michigan —...
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