At the AMA’s annual meeting, members voted to strengthen the organization’s guidance for any physicians considering entering a relationship with a corporation.
Investment from corporations “can offer an alternative to selling a practice to a hospital or health system,” according to a press release from the AMA.
The AMA recently released a survey that revealed the top reasons physicians sold their practices to corporations in the past decade, which included inadequate payment rates, a need for improved access to expensive resources, and better management of payers’