The US health care system has witnessed a rapid increase in the consolidation of physician practices by private equity (PE) firms. Cardiology is a recent area of PE growth, partly due to the inclusion of several cardiovascular procedures reimbursed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in ambulatory surgery settings, fragmentation of cardiology practices, and rising prevalence and severity of cardiac disease. This paper examines the number of acquisitions and affiliated locations and geographic concentration of PE-acquired cardiology platforms, starting from the first known acquisition in 2019.
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Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2819896