After practicing health and hospital law for more than 30 years, John Fanburg, managing member of Brach Eichler, said recently at Withum’s inaugural Healthcare Symposium at the APA Hotel Woodbridge that the capital structures and ownership models of specialty health care practices have drastically changed. “Private equity is happening all over the place, and very aggressively in the specialties of dermatology, urology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, gastroenterology and more,” Fanburg said. “We also have the formation of large single- and multispecialty groups dealing with the same, and then there is physician participation with hospitals in order to collaboratively work together for patient health.” The added value of not-for-profit organizations and public companies in the health care space, too, creates more options to contend with. But Walter Wengel, executive director of New Jersey operations for Aetna, said these changes have been mostly good.
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Source: https://www.roi-nj.com/2020/01/16/healthcare/equity-acting-investment-capital-other-factors-changing-health-practices-ownership-model-experts-say