As payers, retailers and Big Tech companies gobble up medical practices, private equity is the type of entity most likely to buy a physician office, the American Hospital Association found.
Here is who acquired the most physicians from 2019 to 2023, per the June 26 AHA analysis:
1. Private equity: 65 percent
2. Physician medical groups: 14 percent
3. Payers: 11 percent
4. Hospitals and health systems: 8 percent
5. Other: 4 percent