As private practice shrinks and consolidates into corporate-owned healthcare chains, care costs are increasing, and physicians say they’re losing independence.
In recent years, doctors have tested new strategies to break that pattern. One is by unionizing within health systems; another is banding together into “clinically integrated networks” to gain shared resources without selling to a chain.
But some physicians have found another way to stay afloat. They’re arguing that private equity (PE) can provide autonomy, even though some economists warn this model can result in the same issues as other forms of corporate consolidation.
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