Fierce Healthcare February 18, 2020
Anesthesiology and multispecialty practices were most targeted by private equity firms from 2013 to 2016, according to new research.
As Congress considers efforts to rein them in, private equity firms are buying up more physician practices, according to a new study.
Private equity firms acquired 355 physician practices from 2013 to 2016, a number that jumped each year of the study, according to a research letter published today in JAMA. The number increased from 59 practices in 2013 to 136 practices in 2016.
With approximately 18,000 group medical practices in the U.S., researchers said while private equity acquisitions increased across specialties during the study period, they still constituted a small proportion of practices. Those acquisitions continued in the years beyond...
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