Private equity (PE), which encompasses capital investments made in nonpublicly traded businesses for ownership share, has increasingly invested in private medical practices. Specialties, such as orthopedics, dermatology, ophthalmology, and more recently otolaryngology have become attractive to PE due to their high revenue generation from high surgical and procedural service volume. There remains a dearth of research on how PE has impacted otolaryngology practice operations, and there have been no studies to date on its impact on the otolaryngology workforce. This study aims to assess trends between PE acquisitions of otolaryngology practices and changes in the workforce composition of physicians, APPs, and audiologists (AuDs).
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Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11986684/