Private equity firms have been increasingly acquiring physician practices across a number of physician specialties since 2012, increasing from 75 deals in 2012 to 484 deals in 2021, or more than six-fold increase in only 10 years, according to the American Antitrust Institute’s new report “Monetizing Medicine: Private Equity and Competition in Physician Practice Markets”.
Envision Healthcare, with $9.9 billion in PE investment as of 2018, ranks as the largest such deal in the last 10 years. Read more.
