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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

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toped 5,000 from 2015 to 2016 alone [22] , with the total number of hospital owned physician practices increasing to 80,000 by 2018 [15]. According to another study [13] , between 2012 and 2015 Medicare costs on four specialty services actually increased by $3.1