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Deals and Consolidation

Private equity is buying up health care, but the real problem is why doctors are selling

Chris Whaley & Yashaswini Singh of Brown UniversityDecember 21, 2023January 8, 2025
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Who owns your doctor’s office? More and more often nowadays, the answer is a private equity firm — a type of investment fund that buys, restructures, and resells companies.

Over the last decade, private equity firms have spent nearly $1 trillion on close to 8,000 health care deals, snapping up practices that provide care from cradle to grave: fertility clinics, neonatal care, primary care, cardiology, hospices, and everything in between.

Read the full article at The Hill.

This article was produced by Footnote in partnership with Brown University.

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