MedPage Today November 3, 2025
Researcher calls for new laws that effectively regulate private equity’s influence
SAN ANTONIO — State laws aimed at protecting the healthcare industry from corporate influence do not seem to be working, at least with regard to fertility clinics, an analysis of CDC data found.
The likelihood that fertility clinics would be affiliated with private equity was not associated with state corporate practice of medicine laws (HR 5.9, 95% CI 0.45-78.0, P=0.18) nor attorney general notice laws (HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.18-3.7, P=0.79), reported Joshua Chen, BS, a second-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting.
“We know that fertility clinics are increasingly affiliating with private equity...







