Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
That is the topic of a recent paper Tyan, Lam and Milligan (2023). Using newly created database from financial databases combined with press releases, news sources, clinic websites, and financial 10-K reports, the authors found that: During 2003 to 2022, 724 oncology clinics (53% radiation, 32% medical, 15% multi-oncologic) became affiliated with a PE-backed platform…
Private equity investments have grown in health care in recent years. According to Appelbaum and Batt (2020), whereas in only 4.7% of leveraged buy-outs (LBO) were in health care in 2000, that number had risen to 12.2% in 2019. A 2022 white paper finds that investments in health care have risen even more: The number…
Physicians are increasingly becoming parts of larger and larger practice. Further, many physicians are shifting from firm owners to employees. In recent years, private equity investments have helped to accelerate this trend. A paper by Brusch et al. (2020) reviews this trend among women’s health practices (i.e., o bstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) or fertility services). They look…