On the heels of a rise in private equity-owned practices, which can create unique challenges for physicians, major medical organizations have called for greater transparency and oversight.
ACP recently released a position paper on the “growing involvement” of private equity and corporatization in health care. That involvement “raises important questions about its effect on cost, quality, access and the physician workforce,” according to the position paper, because “private equity investment in health care is associated with increased costs and, in some settings, adverse effects on care