Here are five stories pointing toward private equity growth Becker's reported on in July:
- Consensus Health Medical Group added five New Jersey-based independent medical practices, which adds eight physicians and six locations to its network.
- Eastern Carolina Emergency Physicians merged with Emergency Care Partners, a national provider of emergency medicine and emergency department management services for hospitals in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Illinois and North Carolina.
- Physician practice acquisitions involving private equity firms have increased by more than six times over the past 10 years, according to data from the American Antitrust Institute's report "Monetizing Medicine: Private Equity and Competition in Physician Practice Markets."
- Physicians are less likely to work in private practice now than they were 10 years ago, according to a newly released analysis of physician practice agreements from the American Medical Association.
- Private equity firms have been the top buyer of physician practices from 2019 to 2023, accounting for 65 percent of physician practice deals.