For a study, researchers sought to determine if variations in Medicare payments and patient volume were correlated with private equity purchases of urology clinics, Physician’s Weekly reports. Urologists who eventually joined private equity companies earned more mean inflation-adjusted Medicare payments and saw more patients during the pre-acquisition period than those who did not. Inflation-adjusted Medicare payments for PE associated urologists increased by 11.0% throughout the post-acquisition period, and patient volume increased by 12.5%. Read more.
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