Independent Practice

The pressure on U.S. healthcare costs is not letting up. PwC projects a 9% medical cost trend for the commercial group market in 2027, the highest in 17 years, according to its annual medical cost trend report. In the individual…

Physician independence in orthopedics isn’t dying, but it is being redefined. For surgeons, it no longer means a solo practice and a handful of insurance contracts. It means owning the facility, controlling the decisions and building the scale to survive.…

The Texas Medical Association has filed a second amicus brief urging the Texas Supreme Court to keep lay entities, including contracted staffing companies, from directing physicians’ medical decisions in a case that could reshape the state’s corporate practice of medicine…

Sunlight AI, a startup with roots in Miami and New York, has come out of stealth with $17.4 million in seed funding to help independent physician practices compete with large health systems while doctors keep ownership, Refresh Miami reported Oct.…

“Independent” has become one of the most loaded words in physician practice. As hospitals, health systems and private equity firms have absorbed practices over the past two decades, the label has come to signal a practice that has stayed outside…

A proposed Medicare payment cut tied to Modifier 25 could reallocate approximately $889 million in annual Medicare fee-for-service payments, according to an analysis from Jiro Health. Private practices and solo physicians would account for $724.4 million, or 81.5%, of the…

Deeptee Jain, MD, knows what every payer she works with pays her for every procedure she performs. She wishes she didn’t have to. Dr. Jain trained to become a spine surgeon, not to study payer contracts, collections or practice overhead.…

Independent physicians have spent more than a decade watching the share of their peers who own their own practices shrink.  New data exists that tells the story of what it now costs to stay independent, how much deal-making and closure…

For Emeka Nwodim, MD, the future of independent medicine may hinge on a seeming contradiction: Physicians may have to get bigger to remain independent. The economics that once allowed an orthopedic practice to thrive largely by seeing patients and performing…

While the decline of independent practice has persisted as a general trend across medicine, the consolidation of physician practices has played out differently across specialties.  A 2025 specialty-level breakdown of independent practice published by the American Medical Association found private-practice…