Eight specialists published an article in the Urology Gold Journal, determining whether private equity acquisitions of urology practices were associated with changes in Medicare payments and patient volume.
In the pre-acquisition period, urologists later joining private-equity groups received greater mean inflation-adjusted Medicare payments ($246,977 vs. $160,038) and had greater patient volume (839.7 vs. 674.2 patients) than urologists who did not.
Private equity affiliated urologists exhibited increases in Medicare payments even prior to acquisition, in contrast to declines for geographically similar, non-private equity urologists. Read more.
