Physician practice management (PPM) platforms have been a staple for over a decade in their current form and are considered a mainstay of private equity’s investment in healthcare. PPMs have a number ...

Following the COVID-induced pause, transactional activity in the PPM and ASC industries has resumed at a rapid pace. If anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has re-affirmed the value of physician ...

Wow. There is no other word for my newfound perspective on what practice managers actually do. Just wow. Last week, I spent about three hours behind the scenes at a mid-sized independent primary care ...

With tons of dry powder to invest, private equity has a (relatively) newfound interest in healthcare. In 2007 PE investment in the sector totaled $58 billion. In the decade-plus since, that number has ...

The US healthcare services sector enjoyed robust deal activity in 2021, with 1,457 deals closed, representing over $49 billion of capital invested. And within this volume of health care services deals ...

Managed care began as a reform in health care finance but is producing a revolution in health care organization, with ever new forms of ownership, governance, employment, contracting, and oversight.

We've all seen the statistics showing the dramatic trends toward acquisitions of practices by hospitals, the creation of large practice organizations and the disappearance of the individual ...

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You'd be hard pressed to find a physician practice that isn't looking to find ways to save their business money. But finding the right formula? That can be tricky. Michael O'Connell, the senior vice ...

Private equity (PE) remains very active in purchasing physicians' private practices, but when acquisition activity is as high as it is now, practice owners have a number of cards to play in ...

HCA Holdings has acquired a physician practice management company in California, adding more than 800 physicians to the company's network. Terms of HCA's acquisition of Pacific Partners Management ...

This survey assesses physician experiences with utilization management and burnout and investigates whether there is a link between them. Objective: This study was designed to assess physician ...