Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

Re:Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm by lordnacho on Sunday July 16, 2023 @01:32PM (#36749521)

But there's nothing to stop all the doctors in an area from forming a cooperative. That would also be private equity, but not in the sense described in the article.

The PE in the article is firms with other values than what traditional medical professionals have, and those values are conflicting.

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Re:Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm by treis on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:59PM (#36750321)

There's some anti-trust complications with loose cooperatives negotiating as a collective. Fine line between collective bargaining power and price fixing.

Organizations more like employee owned businesses exist but those come with their own sets of problems.

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Re:Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm by matheweis on Sunday July 16, 2023 @08:33PM (#36752817)

ACA restricted doctors from owning hospitals under the guise of preventing fraud in the form of self referrals.

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Fraud-and-Abuse/PhysicianSelfRe...

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